The Foreign Office (FO) said on Monday that Pakistan will send humanitarian aid to help the beleaguered Palestinians who are bearing the brunt of Israel's tyranny.
Israel's continued aerial assault of the Gaza Strip has resulted in more than 2,800 Palestinian martyrs and over 10,000 injuries.
The FO condemned Israel's indiscriminate aggression and siege of the densely populated Gaza Strip and said, "In view of the human tragedy unfolding in Gaza, the government of Pakistan has decided to immediately dispatch humanitarian relief assistance to Gaza to alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian brothers and sisters."
The FO further informed the public that Pakistan is working with the Egyptian government, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society, relevant United Nations (UN) agencies, and Pakistan's diplomatic missions overseas to provide help to the Palestinians.
The new breakthrough comes after Jalil Abbas Jilani, the foreign minister, and Hossein Amir Abdollahian, the foreign minister of Iran, spoke earlier and decided that immediate action needed to be taken to provide humanitarian aid.
During their conversation, Jilani assured Egypt's Foreign Minister, Sameh Shukri, of Pakistan's support.
During Israel's bombardment of the Gaza Strip, which is run by Hamas, and as it continued to gather forces on Monday in preparation for a full-fledged ground invasion, more than a million people in Gaza left their homes amid scenes of chaos and despair.
A day after waves of the organization's fighters breached the tightly guarded border on October 7, killing more than 1,400 people—mostly civilians—by shooting, stabbing, and setting fire to them, Israel declared war on the group.
The UN Human Rights Office has expressed concern over the humanitarian situation in the besieged Palestinian territory and has urged an "urgent need" for hostilities to end so that supplies may reach Gaza.
"The access to water, the access to food, and the forced evacuation of hundreds of thousands of people into southern Gaza have created a very, very difficult humanitarian situation in southern Gaza as well," UNHRO spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani told CNN on Monday. In an interview with CBS News's 60 Minutes, US President Joe Biden endorsed a humanitarian corridor to allow people to leave the conflict-torn region and to allow the supply of food and water into Gaza.