China “strongly condemns” the Israeli air strike on the Tabeen school in Gaza City on Aug. 10, calling it a “heinous act” while stating that attacking civilian infrastructure is “a red line under international humanitarian law.”
The people have no place of safety, said China’s Ambassador to the UN Fu Cong: “They have been forced to move from place to place in search of a corner of peace, only to be met with indiscriminate bombardment and deaths that could befall them at any moment. As we speak, nowhere is safe in Gaza.”
China called out the U.S. for misrepresenting the state of negotiations on a ceasefire, and for continuing to supply Israel with the weapons that are enabling the catastrophic levels of civilian casualties. “Two months ago, when pushing for Security Council Resolution 2735, the U.S. claimed that Israel had accepted a ceasefire agreement. But the reality is quite the opposite,” said Ambassador Fu. Instead of a ceasefire, we see expanding military operations by Israel. “The U.S., as the largest supplier of weapons, has enough influence over Israel. We hope that the U.S. will take sincere and responsible actions to push Israel to stop its military operations in Gaza as soon as possible and to stop slaughtering civilians.”
“Recently, a high ranking Israeli politician described it as just and moral to starve 2 million people in Gaza,” he continued. “Such appalling remarks are totally unacceptable.”
China demands that West Bank settlers be stopped: “China urges Israel to immediately cease all settlement activities, effectively curb the intensifying settler violence, and stop eroding the basis of the two-State solution.”
