On the question of the nationality of the Chinese-Israeli girl, my spokesman responded.
Recently, the situation in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been very tense, and one incident has caught our attention. On the 7th, Hamas forces launched an attack on Israel, and as a result, a girl of mixed Chinese and Israeli descent was captured by them. From the ** at the scene, we can see that the girl is very scared and has been shouting for help, hoping that the other party will not hurt her. Unfortunately, the Hamas forces ignored her pleas and took her away on a motorcycle.
Why did this girl get our attention?It turned out that according to the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Israel, the girl's father is Israeli, her mother is Chinese, and she was born in Beijing. In this case, she may be a person with Chinese nationality. According to the laws of our country, as long as a person is a Chinese national, he is a Chinese citizen. If Chinese citizens are in danger abroad, China has the obligation and responsibility to protect them.
On the 9th, the account of our embassy in Israel posted a **, which was an interview with the girl's father in Israel**. From the **, we can feel that the father is very sad, he said that it was the most painful day of his life, and the last time he saw his daughter was the day before the incident, when the family had a chanting lunch together. He said that he only learned about his daughter's kidnapping from the news, he is now scared, he has always protected his daughter, but at that moment, he could do nothing.
We sympathize with the father's feelings, and we also understand that the Chinese Chamber of Commerce in Israel and the local Chinese are actively helping him to find a way to get the girl out. We think that as Chinese, they are doing a good job and are very caring.
However, the question of whether this girl is Chinese or whether she is a Chinese citizen still makes many people curious.
On the day of the 9th, at a press conference in China, a foreign journalist raised this question. He said that as far as he knew, an Israeli woman of Chinese descent had been abducted by Hamas militants while attending the festival on the Gaza border, and he wanted to ask the spokesman if the woman was a Chinese citizen.
To this question, our spokesperson, Ms. Mao Ning, replied that she had taken note of the incident and said that her country had always opposed violence and attacks against civilians, but she was not very clear about the situation.
This is also our country's official response to this matter at the high-level level.
According to China's nationality law, if one of the child's parents is a Chinese citizen and the child was born in China, then the child can have Chinese nationality. According to this logic, it may be difficult to say whether this girl is Chinese nationality, and our spokesman is also more cautious on this issue, because if this girl is really Chinese nationality, then this matter will escalate to a higher level, and may even lead to China's involvement.
And my personal opinion is that from a rational point of view, this girl may not be of Chinese nationality.
I have the following analysis:
First of all, if this girl was really a Chinese national, our embassy in Israel and the local Chinese Chamber of Commerce should have known about it a long time ago. Even if there is no news from the outside world, as the girl's family, her parents must be clear. In the case of a kidnapping of a daughter, if the daughter is a Chinese national, the parents will definitely contact the embassy of our country immediately. However, from the interview with the girl's father in Israel, we found that the father did not mention that his daughter is a Chinese national, nor did he mention the matter of asking for help from our embassy. He just kept saying that he was sad and that he couldn't protect his daughter.
Secondly, if this girl is really a Chinese national, China should officially intervene in a short period of time, without the need for the local Chinese Chamber of Commerce to intervene deeply. After all, the Chinese Chamber of Commerce is only a non-governmental organization, which is still very different from the official institutions in China. Moreover, at the press conference, when the foreign reporter asked a question, he also first said that the girl was an Israeli woman. Therefore, judging from these objective circumstances, we can infer that the kidnapped girl should not be of Chinese nationality.