Deputy Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Ishaq Dar will depart on Monday for Jordan to participate in the high-level conference on the current situation in Gaza.

The conference, ‘Call for Action: Urgent Humanitarian Response for Gaza’, has been jointly organised by King Abdullah-II of Jordan, President of Egypt Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi, and Secretary-General United Nations Antonio Guterres, as per Radio Pakistan.

The conference aims to identify and develop a collective response to the dire humanitarian situation in Gaza, it was further reported.

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During his visit, Dar will hold bilateral meetings with his counterparts from the participating countries.

More than 37,000 Palestinians, including children and women, have been killed in Israeli aggression in Gaza since October 7.

On Saturday, at least 274 Palestinians were killed and 698 wounded in Israeli strikes on the al-Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza, the health ministry said.

Meanwhile, the United States stepped up pressure on Monday for a Gaza ceasefire with a call for a UN Security Council vote on a truce as it redeployed Washington’s top diplomat to the region scarred by eight months of war.

Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s regional tour was preceded by further bombardment of Gaza by Israeli forces, with witnesses reporting overnight strikes in the centre of the strip and helicopter gunfire on ravaged Gaza City.