BEIJING: China supports the “just cause of the Palestinian people in safeguarding their national rights”, foreign minister Wang Yi told his Iranian counterpart today as Beijing takes an increasingly clear stance on the Israel-Gaza conflict.
“The root cause … of the Palestine-Israel situation is that the Palestinian people’s right to statehood has been set aside for a long time,” Wang said in a call with Iran’s foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian today, according to an official Chinese readout. The cramped and impoverished Gaza Strip, where 2.3 million residents live on top of each other, has been under a land, air and sea blockade by Israel since 2006.Wang said in a call today with Saudi Arabia’s Prince Faisal bin Farhan that Israel’s actions were now “beyond the scope of self-defence” and the Israeli government must “cease its collective punishment of the people of Gaza”.
Yesterday, Wang held a call with US secretary of state Antony Blinken, who had called on China to use its influence in the Middle East to push for calm in the region. But “its good relations with Israel, especially in the technological sector, limits Beijing’s room for manoeuvre”, he told AFP.More than a million people in the northern part of Gaza have been ordered to flee.
Zhai “will visit the Middle East next week to coordinate with various parties for a ceasefire, to protect civilians, ease the situation, and promote peace talks”, CCTV said in a video posted to its official social media account today.
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