Pakistan stands in full solidarity with the Palestinian people. Image: File
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Saturday condemned the violence perpetrated by Israeli forces against the funeral procession of slain Palestinian Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh who was working for Al Jazeera as a reporter.
“Such acts will not quash the Palestinians’ just struggle for freedom. Pakistan stands in full solidarity with the Palestinian people,” said foreign office Spokesperson Asim Iftikhar Ahmad in a statement.
Pakistan condemns the violence perpetrated by Israeli forces against the funeral procession of slain Palestinian Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. Such acts will not quash the Palestinians’ just struggle for freedom. Pakistan stands in full solidarity with the Palestinian people.
— Spokesperson 🇵🇰 MoFA (@ForeignOfficePk) May 14, 2022
On Wednesday, while documenting an Israeli raid in the Jenin refugee camp in the occupied West Bank, the veteran Al Jazeera journalist was killed by Israeli forces.
According to Al Jazeera, Israel murdered her “deliberately” and “in cold blood.”
After Israeli police disrupted the funeral procession of veteran Al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh, tens of thousands of people flocked to Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday for her burial.
Pallbearers struggled to keep Abu Akleh’s coffin from tumbling to the ground as baton-wielding police officers surged at them, taking Palestinian flags from mourners, according to television footage.
The events left Washington “extremely concerned,” while the European Union was “appalled” by the “unnecessary force.”
Abu Akleh, a Christian Palestinian American, was a well-known journalist whose funeral drew large crowds.
As her body left St Joseph’s hospital in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem, Israeli police stormed mourners who had hoisted Palestinian flags.
The apartheid state forbids public displays of Palestinian flags and routinely intervenes against those who parade them at demonstrations or other gatherings.
New violence occurred in the West Bank, with a raid and fighting taking place near the Jenin refugee camp.
The Israeli officer killed was identified as Noam Raz, a 47-year-old father of six. Police said he was wounded “during a shootout,” and later died.
The Palestinian health ministry said 13 Palestinians were wounded in the clashes, one of them seriously.
Israeli forces surrounded the home of a suspect, besieging two men inside and firing anti-tank grenades at the residence, according to an AFP photographer.
Tensions were already high following a spate of anti-Israeli violence that claimed the lives of at least 18 people, including an Arab-Israeli police officer and two Ukrainians, since March 22.
According to an AFP tally, 31 Palestinians and three Israeli Arabs perished during the same period, including attackers and those killed by Israeli security forces in West Bank operations.
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