Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar has assailed Israel’s “reckless disregard” for humanity through its bombardment of Gaza at the ministerial meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation in China.

“Israel has shown a reckless disregard for international norms and humanity through its relentless and disproportionate use of force in Gaza, resulting in the deaths of tens of thousands of civilians, causing the worst humanitarian crisis in Gaza,” Dar said.

“We call for an immediate halt to Israel’s atrocities. The only viable remedy for the Palestinian dispute is the realisation of the two-state solution, which includes the establishment of Palestine as a viable, secure and contiguous state on the basis of pre-1967 borders with Al Quds as its capital,” he added.

The deputy premier also slammed Israel’s attacks on Iran, which sparked the recent war between the two countries.

“We are increasingly concerned at the […] of using aggression as a tool of policy. We have strongly condemned the unjustified and illegitimate aggression by Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran and the US strikes on its nuclear facilities,” Dar told the SCO meeting.

“Such illegal actions directed against SCO member states are unacceptable.”