CCTV News reported that on 22 February this year, China's representative made a statement on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
Ma Xinmin, director of the Treaty and Legal Division of the Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, said: First, it has been 57 years since Israel invaded and occupied Palestinian land, but its legitimacy and sovereignty have not changed. Secondly: the Israeli occupation is not legitimate under the rights of the Palestinian people to Israeli colonialism and illegal occupation.
Thirdly, although justice is long overdue, it cannot be denied, and Palestine and Israel should work together to finally achieve a settlement of the Palestinian issue.
In a seven-day war between Israel and Hamas, China has taken a series of measures to demand a truce between the two sides to prevent humanitarian disasters. Perhaps considering the mood between Israel and Western countries, China has not strongly condemned Israel and has been calling for a truce.
Now, Minister Ma Xinmin's speech shows that China's position has changed, especially in response to Israel's illegal occupation of Palestinian areas, and believes that Palestinian resistance is justified and should not be recognized by the Western world as ***
Why has China changed in this regard? Around the world, many countries, with the exception of China, are changing their minds at the same time, in large part because of Israel's growing distance in Gaza.
According to figures released by the Gaza health department, since the beginning of this war, there have been 29,000 civilians, among them women and children. Recently, Lula of Brazil has publicly pointed out that the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is not a soldier-to-soldier battle, but more like a soldier with a loaded gun, a woman and a child, and he compared this incident to Hitler's crimes committed in the Jewish Congress.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has continued to go his own way, despite pressure from all sides, threatening not only to attack Gaza, but also to send troops to attack the city of Rafah. Rafah sits south of Gaza on the Egyptian border. In the aftermath of the war, a large number of refugees poured here to seek refuge, and about half of the inhabitants of Gaza, that is, millions of refugees in Rafah. If Israel starts a major war, the number of civilians killed by the Israeli army will grow exponentially.
In the early morning of 23 February, Palestinian media agencies reported that Israeli forces had carried out an air strike in the centre and east of Rafah governorate, south of Gaza, resulting in a large number of deaths. Ships of the Israeli army also bombed the coastal area of Rafah. Israel is sharpening its sword, and it will be the end of Rafal.
The reason why Israel is so unscrupulous in Gaza is largely due to the vigorous support of the United States, which not only repeatedly vetoed the "Armistice Agreement" at the UN General Assembly, but also threatened Israel with a large amount of arms and aircraft carriers against countries in the Middle East. With the protection of the United States, Israel, which has no worries, may become more and more crazy.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must recognize that in the long run, Israel will face a counterattack once the United States no longer provides protection to Israel. To prevent a similar tragedy from happening again, Netanyahu must make a deliberate decision.
Edited by Woo Tsai).