Pakistani Senator: We should stand with the Palestinians, not the occupiers.
Senator Allama Nasser Abbas Jafari, Chairman of the Muslim Unity Party, today issued a statement expressing his deep concern and firm opposition to the alleged report (in the Zionist media outlet The Times of Israel) about the deployment of Pakistani forces as part of the so-called international force for Gaza. He stated that the force, far from serving the cause of peace or justice, endangers Pakistan within a US-led framework designed to manage, not end, Israeli military control over Gaza. The opposition leader in the Pakistani Senate added that the international force in Gaza, as currently conceived, legitimizes Israel’s continued control over Gaza’s borders and internal affairs. Rather than being a neutral peacekeeping mission, the force acts as an extension of the so-called change of occupation and neutralizes Israeli aggression through Muslim participation. He said: “Any such action violates international law and the basic principles of peacekeeping that require the approval of the host country. The people of Gaza rightly see the international force not as a stabilizing force but as an imposed foreign presence; therefore, it is illegitimate from the outset.” The Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) leader said: “The reported mission of the international force in Gaza to ‘disarm Hamas’ is both provocative and unrealistic. Any attempt to forcibly disarm a deep-rooted resistance movement will not bring peace; it will only reignite violence.” He stressed, “Let us be clear that participating in the plan for an international force in Gaza would amount to cooperating with Israel to suppress the Palestinian resistance. Such complicity is a betrayal of Pakistan’s moral and historical position – a position that has always supported the right to self-determination and freedom of the Palestinian people.” Senator Allama Nasser Abbas Jaafari concluded by adding, “I call on the Pakistani government to refrain from joining the international force in Gaza.” We should not engage in a plan that serves neither justice nor unity, but rather legitimizes the occupation under the pretext of stability. Therefore, Pakistan should stand with Palestine and not with the occupier.