Egypt held a high-level meeting on Saturday on the two-week war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in the Gaza Strip, where United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres called for “global action to end this terrible nightmare.”
Beijing’s special envoy Zhai Jun met with the head of the Arab League, Ahmed Abul Gheit, on the sidelines of the summit.
A Chinese diplomat called for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the fighting as soon as possible, his ministry said in a statement.
“China believes that force is not the way to solve the problem and that responding to violence with violence only leads to a vicious cycle of revenge,” Zhai Jun said in a statement that did not mention Israel or Hamas.
On October 7, the Palestinian Islamist group “Hamas” from the Gaza Strip unexpectedly attacked Israel, invading its territory and carrying out rocket attacks. Israel carried out retaliatory strikes on the Gaza Strip. More than 1.4 thousand people died in Israel. people, including civilians.
In response, the Jewish state launched a bombing campaign in the Gaza Strip, which has leveled entire city blocks and killed more than 4,600 people so far. of Palestinians, mostly civilians, according to the Hamas-controlled Ministry of Health.
China has so far maintained good relations with Israel, but has supported the Palestinian cause for decades and traditionally supports a two-state solution.
China said on Thursday it was deeply disappointed by the United States’ decision to veto a UN Security Council resolution calling for a humanitarian pause in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
Washington justified its veto by the fact that the text does not mention Israel’s right to self-defense.
Chinese President Xi Jinping told Egyptian Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouli during a meeting in Beijing that it was “very important to prevent the conflict from expanding or even losing control and causing a serious humanitarian crisis.”
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