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Palestinian President Abbas Condemns she spoke out against the violent extrem- heed dissenting) sub-section 1 of Section no restrictions on the Parliament amend- left. The moves did not appear to be the
Violence against Civilians on Both Sides ist group ― is well qualified to speak on 5 of the Act (granting a right of appeal ing rules under Article 191. beginning of an expected ground inva-
(Continued from page 1) this particular matter. She was a child prospectively) is declared to be in accor- “Are you saying that there are no re- sion.
mark a shift from Abbas’ previous when the Taliban took control of her dance with the Constitution and to this strictions on the Parliament amending The evacuation order was taken as
failure to condemn Saturday’s attack, home, Mingora, the largest city in the extent, the petitions are dismissed,” he rules formulated by the SC?” Justice Ah- a further signal of an expected Israeli
during which more than 1,000 Israelis Swat Valley in what is now the Khyber ruled. san asked. “So, are there no restrictions ground offensive, although no such de-
were killed. Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan, ac- Sub-section 1 of Section 5 of the Act on SC amending laws created by the Par- cision has been announced. Israel has
“We reject the practices of killing ci- cording to the Nobel Foundation. says: “An appeal shall lie within thirty liament?” been massing troops along the Gaza
vilians or abusing them on both sides “I was only 11 years old when I days from an order of a bench of the Awan replied that the Parliament was border. An assault into densely popu-
because they contravene morals, religion witnessed violence and terrorism,” Supreme Court who exercised jurisdic- the institution that created laws. He fur- lated and impoverished Gaza would
and international law,” the official Pales- Yousafzai, now 26, wrote in her statement tion under clause (3) of Article 184 of ther stated that if the number of pending likely bring even higher casualties on
tinian news agency Wafa quoted Abbas on social media. “We woke up to the the Constitution to a larger bench of the cases in the apex court crossed 70,000 a both sides in brutal house-to-house
as saying. sounds of mortar shells, saw our schools Supreme Court and such appeal shall, for need may arise to create another law. fighting.
He said the Palestinian Authority, and mosques destroyed by bombs. Peace hearing, be fixed within a period not ex- Meanwhile, Justice Naqvi asked if the “We will destroy Hamas,” Israeli
which exercises limited governance in became something we could only dream ceeding fourteen days”. AGP had brought the record of the num- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
the occupied West Bank and which has about.” “By a majority of 8-7 (CJP Isa, Jus- ber of parliamentarians who had debated vowed in a speech Friday night, add-
long been opposed to Hamas, the Is- Yousafzai’s statement aligns with tice Sardar Tariq Masood, Justice Syed on the practice and procedure law. “It is ing, “This is only the beginning.”
lamist movement which controls Gaza, UNICEF’s call for an “immediate cessa- Mansoor Ali Shah, Justice Amin-ud-Din present on the website,” Awan replied. Hamas said Israel’s airstrikes killed
stood against violence and would pursue tion of hostilities” in the region. Khan, Justice Jamal Khan Mandokhail, At one point, CJP Isa said institutions 13 of the hostages in the past day. It
political action to achieve its goals. UNICEF spokesperson James Elder Justice Athar Minallah and Justice Mu- should not be “pitted against each oth- said the dead included foreigners but
On Thursday, Blinken added his voice said in a press conference Monday that sarrat Hilali dissenting) sub-section (2) er” and there should be mutual respect did not give their nationalities. Israeli
to international condemnation of the at- the current conflict has already taken a of Section 5 of the Act (granting a right among them. military spokesperson Rear Adm.
tack but said he knew that Hamas did not “horrendous toll on the lives of children of appeal retrospectively) is declared to “In my opinion, the Parliament re- Daniel Hagari denied the claim.
represent the Palestinian people or their and their families in Israel and the State be ultra vires the Constitution and to this spected the SC. If it wanted, the Parlia- Palestinians in Gaza Grapple with
legitimate aspirations. of Palestine.” extent the petitions are allowed,” the ver- ment could have taken another step Where to Go
The West Bank, which Palestinians “According to reports, hundreds of Is- dict added. which it did not. I believe that step was Gaza City resident Khaled Abu Sul-
want as the core of a future state, has raeli and Palestinian children have been Sub-section (2) of Section 5 of the not taken because the Parliament trusts tan at first didn’t believe the evacua-
seen a wave of violence for more than 18 killed and many more injured in the last practice and procedure law says: “The us,” he said. tion order was real, and now isn’t sure
months that has fueled fears of a repeat of 72 hours,” Elder said. right of appeal under sub-section (1) The top judge further stated that the whether to evacuate his family to the
the two Palestinian Intifadas or uprisings He noted that reports of the “killing shall also be available to an aggrieved scope of the matter should not be wid- south. “We don’t know if there are safe
of the 1980s and early 2000s. and maiming of children” in the West person against whom an order has been ened. “Parliament is not our enemy nei- areas there,” he said. “We don’t know
As Israel has reeled from the impact Bank and the Gaza Strip, and “the abduc- made under clause (3) of Article 184 ther does it consider us enemies. Both anything.”
of Saturday’s unprecedented assault by tion of Israeli children to the Gaza Strip,” of the Constitution, prior to the com- can be run simultaneously,” he said. Many expressed concern they
Hamas gunmen, in which more than indicate a “grave violation” of interna- mencement of this Act.” “The world is moving forward would not be able to return or be grad-
1,200 Israelis were killed and Gaza has tional humanitarian law. In April, the Supreme Court, then while we are going backwards. There ually displaced to Egypt’s Sinai Penin-
been subject to the most intense bom- Elder also said UNICEF is “extremely led by former chief justice Umar Ata are a number of challenges that we sula.
bardment it has ever seen, the West Bank alarmed” by the Israeli government’s de- Bandial, barred the government from are seeing, including climate change,” More than half of the Palestinians
has been ominously volatile. cision to “cut electricity, food, water and implementing the law until the petitions Justice Isa added and cited the phrase in Gaza are the descendants of refugees
More than 30 people have been killed fuel from entering Gaza.” challenging it were decided. The decision “live and let live”. from the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s
in the West Bank and East Jerusalem “This will add another layer of suffer- was taken by an eight-member bench “The world moves forward together, creation, when hundreds of thousands
since Saturday and security forces are ing to the existing catastrophe faced by consisting ex-CJP Bandial, Justice Ah- not antagonistically,” the apex judge said. fled or were expelled from what is now
braced for further violence ahead of Fri- families in Gaza,” he said. san, Justice Akhtar, Justice Sayyed Naqvi, He then instructed the AGP to focus on Israel. For many, the mass evacuation
day prayers at the Al Aqsa mosque in On Saturday, Hamas broke through Justice Mohammad Ali Mazhar, Justice the attack on the Constitution… - Dawn order dredged up fears of a second ex-
Jerusalem. Both Fatah, the faction which Israel’s security barrier with thousands Ayesha, Justice Syed Hasan Azhar Rizvi pulsion. Already, at least 423,000 peo-
controls the Palestinian Authority, and of rockets and attacked nearby settle- and Justice Waheed. A day after he was Palestinians Flee Northern Gaza after ple — nearly one in five Gazans — have
Hamas, which has a strong presence in ments. Dozens of Hamas militants also sworn in, on September 19, incumbent Israel Orders 1 million to Evacuate as been forced from their homes by Israeli
the West Bank, called for a “day of rage” opened fire on about 3,500 young peo- CJP Qazi Faez Isa resumed hearing the Ground Attack Looms airstrikes, the UN said Thursday.
protest on Friday. ple at a music festival in southern Israel petitions with a full court and ordered (Continued from page 1) “Where is the sense of security in
The mosque, on a site in the Old City near the Gaza border, in what is now live-streaming of the entire proceedings. Gaza faced what they feared was a no- Gaza? Is this what Hamas is offering
of Jerusalem holy to both Muslims and believed to be the worst civilian mas- Today’s judgment comes after five win decision to leave or stay, with no us?” said one resident, Tarek Mraish,
Jews who know it as the Temple Mount, sacre in Israel’s history. proceedings were conducted on the mat- safe ground anywhere. Hospital staff standing by an avenue as vehicles
is one of the most sensitive places in the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin ter. At the previous hearing, an exchange said they couldn’t abandon patients. flowed by. “What has Hamas done to
Middle East and the trigger for repeated Netanyahu’s government retaliated by between judges and counsel hinted at the Unrelenting Israeli strikes over the us? It brought us catastophe,” he said,
confrontations. On Thursday, a Palestin- launching airstrikes on nearby Palestin- disquiet among judges over the court’s past week have leveled large swaths of using the same Arabic word “nakba”
ian man was shot dead just outside the ian settlements, per an Al Jazeera report- workings. neighborhoods, adding to the suffer- used for the 1948 displacement.
Old City after he apparently fired at a po- er on the ground in Gaza. While some ing of Gaza, which has also been sealed Gaza’s Health Ministry said it was
lice station, Israeli police said. news coverage has described Hamas’ The hearing off from food, water and medical sup- impossible to evacuate the many
Earlier, Israeli settlers in the West attack as “unprovoked,” experts of the At the outset of the hearing in the day, plies, and is under a virtual total power wounded from hospitals, which are al-
Bank killed two Palestinians when they region and those who advocate for Pales- Attorney General for Pakistan (AGP) blackout. ready struggling with high numbers of
opened fire on a funeral procession. A tinian liberation point out that this week’s Mansoor Usman Awan presented his “Forget about food, forget about dead and injured. “We cannot evacuate
37-year-old woman was also killed when violence exists in the context of the Israeli submissions. He said his arguments electricity, forget about fuel. The only hospitals and leave the wounded and
she was shot by security forces near Ra- government’s decades-long apartheid would be based on the government’s concern now is just if you’ll make it, sick to die,” spokesperson Ashraf al-
mallah, the main city in the West bank, against Palestinians. written response submitted in court. if you’re going to live,” said Nebal Far- Qidra said.
according to Palestinian health services. “Today’s bloodshed is the tip of an “You are saying you not repeat the sakh, a spokesperson for the Palestin- Farsakh, of the Palestinian Red
- Reuters iceberg: an iceberg of state violence and arguments but will highlight them,” the ian Red Crescent in Gaza City, as she Crescent, said some medics were refus-
ethnic subjugation,” Nathan Thrall, a CJP said here, to which Awan stated that broke into heaving sobs. ing to leave and abandon patients and
Malala Calls for ‘Immediate Ceasefire’ writer and expert on Israel-Palestine is- he would talk about the independence of In the week-old war, the Gaza Health were instead calling colleagues to say
amid Israel-Hamas Conflict sues, posted on X, formerly Twitter, Sat- the judiciary and Article 191 of the Con- Ministry said Friday that roughly 1,800 goodbye. “We have wounded, we have
(Continued from page 1) urday. “Blood will continue to be spilled stitution. people have been killed in the territory elderly, we have children who are in
ing hundreds of people and prompting so long as we ignore the root causes.” Article 191 (Rules of procedure) — more than half of them under the hospitals,” she said.
Israel to declare war. -HuffPost states: “Subject to the Constitution and age of 18, or women. Hamas’ assault The U.N. agency for Palestinian
Yousafzai did not take a side in her law, the Supreme Court may make rules last Saturday killed more than 1,300 refugees, known as UNRWA, said it
statement, but pleaded for the vicious at- Law Aimed at Clipping CJP’s Wings regulating the practice and procedure of Israelis, most of whom were civilians, would not evacuate its schools, where
tacks to end for the sake of all children ‘Sustained as Being Constitutional’ the Court.” and roughly 1,500 Hamas militants hundreds of thousands have taken
caught in the crossfire. (Continued from page 1) The AGP added that three questions were killed during the fighting, the Is- shelter. But it relocated its headquar-
“As I have processed the tragic news tice of Pakistan (CJP) Qazi Faez Isa said were raised during the proceedings on raeli government said. ters to southern Gaza, according to
of the past days, I think of the Palestin- that “a majority of 10-5 (Justice Ijazul the matter in discussion and he would Israeli Troops Make Foray into Gaza spokesperson Juliette Touma.
ian and Israeli children caught in the Ahsan, Justice Munib Akhtar, Justice respond to them. He said Article 191 did Israel’s raid was the first word of “The scale and speed of the unfold-
middle,” Yousafzai said in her statement. Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi, Justice Ayesha not take away the Parliament’s right to troops entering Gaza since Israel ing humanitarian crisis is bone-chill-
“War never spares children — not A. Malik and Justice Shahid Waheed dis- legislate. launched its round-the-clock bom- ing. Gaza is fast becoming a hellhole
those kidnapped from their homes in senting), the SC Practice and Procedure “Parliament has given the judiciary its bardment in retaliation for Hamas’ and is on the brink of collapse,” said
Israel, not those hiding from airstrikes Act 2023 is sustained as being in accor- independence but has also not limited its attack, in which militant fighters mas- Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA’s commis-
or without food and water in Gaza,” she dance with the Constitution of the Islam- right to legislate,” Awan said. sacred hundreds in southern Israel and sioner general.
wrote. “Today, I am grieving for all the ic Republic of Pakistan and to this extent, Here, Justice Akhtar recalled that snatched some 150 people to Gaza as Pressed by reporters on whether
children and people longing for peace the petitions are dismissed”. before 1973, changes to SC rules were hostages. the army would protect hospitals, UN
and justice in the Holy Land.” “By majority of 9-6 (Justice Ahsan, conditional to the permission of the gov- A military spokesman said that af- shelters and other civilian locations,
Yousafzai ― who survived a 2012 as- Justice Akhtar, Justice Afridi, Justice ernor general or president. ter Israeli ground troops conducted Hagari, the Israeli military spokesper-
sassination attempt by the Taliban after Naqvi, Justice Ayesha and Justice Wa- For his part, the AGP said there were their raids in Gaza on Friday, they then son, warned, “It’s a war zone.” - AP
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