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title: 'Pakistan Calls for End to Israeli Occupation on Nakba Day'
url: 'https://thediplomaticinsight.com/pakistan-calls-end-israeli-occupation-nakba-day/'
author: 'News Desk'
date: '2026-05-16T18:38:06+05:00'
categories:
  - 'Diplomatic News'
  - 'Middle East'
  - 'Pakistan'
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# Pakistan Calls for End to Israeli Occupation on Nakba Day

**New York (TDI): **Pakistan’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, delivered a strongly worded address at the UN on Friday, demanding an immediate end to what he described as Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestinian territories.

Ahmad was speaking at the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People on the occasion of Nakba Day.

The Nakba, Arabic for “catastrophe,” is commemorated each year on May 15 to mark the mass displacement of more than 750,000 Palestinians during the 1948 war that accompanied the creation of Israel.

“The Nakba must not be allowed to continue into another generation of Palestinians,” Ahmad told the assembly. “It must end through justice, accountability, and the vacation of illegal occupation.”

He also stressed the need for sustained international support for Palestinian refugees, saying that remembrance alone was no longer sufficient. Ahmad told the committee that the world was witnessing a new Nakba unfolding in Gaza, one that must be stopped.

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Support for Palestine is etched in Pakistan’s own independence struggle. Pakistan reaffirms its unwavering solidarity with the people of Palestine and their just struggle for self-determination, freedom, and dignity.

On the solemn anniversary of the Nakba, remembrance alone is…

— Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, PR of Pakistan to the UN (@PakistanPR_UN) [May 16, 2026](https://twitter.com/PakistanPR_UN/status/2055522137666945208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw)

More than 72,000 people have been killed and the majority of Palestinians displaced due to Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip since October 2023, with shortages of food, water, medicine, and fuel persisting despite a fragile ceasefire reached late last year.

The Pakistani envoy also drew attention to escalating Israeli settlement activity in the West Bank. In nearly four years, Israel has approved 102 new settlements, nearly doubling the 127 that previously existed.

Compounding the crisis, the UN recorded the highest number of settler-related attacks against Palestinians in 2025 since systematic documentation began in 2006.

Read More: [Israeli Strikes on Gaza Kill 136 Palestinians on 77th Nakba Day](https://thediplomaticinsight.com/israeli-strikes-kill-136-palestinians-on-nakba-day/)**

Ahmad also invoked UN General Assembly Resolution 194, noting that the right of return for Palestinian refugees remained unfulfilled; a longstanding point of contention in international efforts toward a lasting peace.

Pakistan reaffirmed its unwavering solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for self-determination, freedom, and dignity, and reiterated its consistent support for the establishment of an independent and sovereign Palestinian state along pre-1967 borders, with Al-Quds Al-Sharif as its capital.

The address reflects Islamabad’s long-held position on the Palestinian question and comes amid intensifying global scrutiny of conditions in Gaza, where the humanitarian situation remains dire despite international pressure for a durable ceasefire.