ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has expressed solidarity with the oppressed Palestinians facing Israeli oppression.
on a social media website Twitter, the premier said Pakistan stands with Palestine. The prime minister also shared the hashtags of ‘We Stand with Gaza’ and ‘We Stand with Palestine’.
PM Imran also shared a post of famous linguist Noam Chomsky on the plight of Palestinians that stated, “You take my water, burn my olive trees, destroy my house, take my job, steal my land, imprison my father, kill my mother, bombard my country, starve us all, humiliate us all but I am to blame: I shot a rocket back.”
I am PM of Pakistan and #WeStandWithGaza #WeStandWithPalestine pic.twitter.com/0Gpb9DxjJG
— Imran Khan (@ImranKhanPTI) May 12, 2021
At least 28 Palestinians – including 10 children and a woman – were killed in Gaza, most by airstrikes, health officials said on Wednesday. Two women were killed by rockets fired from Gaza that hit their homes in the southern city of Ashkelon – the first Israeli deaths in the current violence. At least 10 other Israelis have been wounded
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said officials decided to “increase both the strength and rate of the strikes” against Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the Gaza Strip. “Hamas will receive blows now that it didn’t expect,” he said.
Even before the two Israeli deaths, the Israeli military said it was sending troop reinforcements to the Gaza border and the defense minister ordered the mobilization of 5,000 reserve soldiers.
The barrage of rockets and airstrikes was preceded by hours of clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces, including dramatic confrontations at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
The current violence, like previous rounds, including the last intifada, or uprising, has been fuelled by conflicting claims over Jerusalem, In a sign of widening unrest, hundreds of residents of Arab communities across Israel staged overnight demonstrations denouncing the recent actions of Israeli security forces against Palestinians.
Israel and Hamas have fought three wars and numerous skirmishes since the militant group seized control of Gaza in 2007. Israel carried out dozens of airstrikes, including two that targeted high-rise apartment buildings where militants were believed to be hiding.
At midday, an airstrike hit an apartment building in central Gaza City, sending terrified residents running into the street, including women and barefoot children.
The Islamic Jihad militant group confirmed that the strike killed three of its commanders. An earlier airstrike struck another high-rise in the city as people were conducting dawn prayers, killing a woman, her 19-year-old son and another man.
Lieutenant Colonel Jonathan Conricus, an Israeli military spokesman, said Gaza militants fired more than 500 rockets at Israel, with about one-third falling short and landing in Gaza.
