21 March 2024•Update: 21 March 2024
ANKARA
China on Thursday said it stands ready to continue working to end the fighting in the Gaza Strip and implement a two-state solution for "lasting" Mideast peace.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Lin Jian made the comments at a news conference in Beijing while condemning civilian casualties and violations of international law in Gaza.
He said the international community "needs to act urgently, set the cease-fire as an overwhelming priority and humanitarian aid as a pressing moral responsibility, and hold a more broad-based, authoritative and effective international peace conference as early as possible."
The extreme importance and urgency of a cease-fire is "all the more evident," said Lin.
He said Beijing is "deeply" grieved by the deaths of innocent civilians in the conflict and "heart-wrenched" by the increasingly severe humanitarian disaster in Gaza.
"Their homeland is reduced to rubble, hospitals are frequently attacked, people are underfed and casualties are increasing every day," he noted.
Nothing can justify the inaction of the international community, he added.
