Today, Wednesday, during his meeting with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, Chinese President Xi Jinping denounced the “extremely dangerous” humanitarian situation in the Gaza Strip in light of the Israeli war that has been ongoing for more than 7 months, while El-Sisi stressed the need to stop the war.
This came on the eve of the Arab-Chinese Forum organized by Beijing with the aim of consolidating its diplomatic and economic relations with the countries of the Middle East.
Xi told Sisi during a meeting in Beijing, “This new episode of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has caused a large number of casualties among innocent Palestinian civilians, and the humanitarian situation in Gaza is extremely dangerous,” according to what Chinese television reported. He added that “China is deeply pained” by what is happening.
Egypt, Qatar, and the United States are leading mediation efforts seeking to reach a truce in the Gaza Strip, which includes the release of prisoners held by the Palestinian resistance.
The Israeli occupation army continues its military operations in Gaza, despite international condemnation after strikes on two camps for displaced people in the city of Rafah on Sunday evening, as a result of which 45 Palestinians were martyred and 249 others were injured, most of them children and women, according to official Palestinian figures.
For its part, the Egyptian presidency said – in a statement – that “President Sisi agreed with his Chinese counterpart on the necessity of an immediate ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, as well as rejecting the forced displacement of Palestinians outside their lands,” stressing that “implementing the two-state solution is the main guarantor of restoring stability and establishing peace.” and regional security.
Since last October 7, Israel has been waging a devastating war on the Gaza Strip that has left more than 117,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and about 10,000 missing amid massive destruction and famine that has claimed the lives of children and the elderly.
Israel continues the war despite orders from the International Court of Justice to take immediate temporary measures to prevent acts of “genocide,” the latest of which is to immediately stop the military operation in Rafah and improve the catastrophic humanitarian situation in the Strip.
