China calls on the international community to take immediate action to achieve ceasefire in Gaza

China has called on the international community to take action immediately, and consider a  ceasefire in Gaza as a top priority, and make humanitarian aid an urgent moral responsibility.

“The killing of civilians in Gaza must stop, and the injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people also must stop and the double standards against human rights and international humanitarian law must be abandoned,” Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Wang Wenbin said during a press conference held in the capital, Beijing.

He pointed out that the longer the flames of fire  continue in Gaza, the more humanity’s conscience is wounded and justice is eroded.

For his part, the United Nations envoy to the Middle East, Tor Wennesland, warned of a broader catastrophe resulting from the ongoing Israeli occupation aggression for the 159th day against the stricken Gaza Strip.

“After more than 150 days of war, the people of Gaza must see an end to the atrocities they are still suffering from,” Wafa agency quoted  Wennesland as saying during a briefing at the UN Security Council last night.

He noted that the Israeli aggression on Gaza Strip made the fragile stability in the Gaza Strip highly endangered.

In turn, European Union foreign policy official Josep Borrell said: The famine in the Gaza Strip is being used as a weapon of war, indicating that what is happening is a man-made humanitarian crisis and not a natural disaster, and it represents the culmination of a dangerous and unusual conflict that has been going on for nearly a century.

Regarding the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza Strip, Borrell said: “We must condemn what is happening in Gaza. When we search for alternative ways to provide support by sea or air, we must remember that we were forced to do so because the natural means of providing support via land routes has become been closed.”

Rawaa Ghanam