Statement by Ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmed, Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the UN At the UN Security Council Briefing on the Humanitarian Situation in Gaza
United Nations, 16 July 2025(Kamran Raja): We thank Under-Secretary-General, Tom Fletcher and Executive Director Russell, for the compelling briefings. We appreciate and support your work. To properly describe the situation – was beyond vocabulary. The situation was beyond belief – unimaginable – in this time and age. We support your calls – primarily for standing unequivocally with international law and international humanitarian law and for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. Gaza teeters on the brink of total devastation—a man-made catastrophe where death stems not only from bombardment, but from the systematic dismantling of the conditions necessary for life. Over 58,000 people have been killed, more than 138,000 wounded, and entire neighborhoods have been reduced to rubble. Hospitals are ...