China Calls for Urgent, Decisive Actions on the Question of Palestine

China known as on Monday for pressing and decisive actions to forestall the Palestinian query from being completely derailed, the official Palestinian information company WAFA reported.

“It has been confirmed again and again that the query of Palestine is the crux of the peace within the Center East. Piecemeal disaster administration can’t substitute for a complete and simply settlement,” China’s everlasting ambassador Zhang Jun instructed a UN Safety Council briefing on the State of affairs within the Center East, together with the Palestinian Query.

Remarks by Ambassador Zhang Jun on the UN Safety Council Briefing on the State of affairs within the Center East, together with the Palestinian Questionhttps://t.co/aLLyGignlF pic.twitter.com/DD6LbyozKA

— Chinese language Mission to UN (@Chinamission2un) June 27, 2022

“Restricted financial and humanitarian measures can’t erase political and safety deficit. And particular person nationwide insurance policies can’t substitute lengthy established worldwide consensus and multilateral course of, together with resolutions adopted by this Council and the Normal Meeting one after one other,” he continued, including:

“ What is required in the interim is pressing and decisive actions, in order to forestall the prepare of Palestinian-Israeli state of affairs from completely falling off the monitor.”

Zhang voiced his nation’s deep concern over the deteriorating state of affairs within the occupied Palestinian territory.

He went on to denounce the growth of Jewish, the pillage of pure sources, and the encroachment upon Space C, which constitutes 60 p.c of the occupied West Financial institution and falls below full Israeli army rule.

“Below the Israeli occupation, Palestine’s viability has been squeezed to the restrict. We’ve got famous with nice concern that roughly 18% of Space C within the West Financial institution has been designated by Israel as closed army zone for coaching, and a few 50% has been designated for different functions, successfully closing it off for Palestinian development, financial exercise and growth.”

“What’s extra regarding is that the continued growth of settlements has encroached upon Palestinian land and pure sources, undermines the suitable of the Palestinian folks to self-determination, and made a geographically contiguous, impartial and sovereign State of Palestine ever extra elusive to realize. Each brutal inch of growth of settlement is making the prospect of a two-state answer a lot more durable to realize,” Zhang added.

He urged Israel to cease its contempt for Decision 2334, cease all colonial settlement actions, and halt additional undermining the muse for the two-state answer.

Palestine is a litmus check – as is Ukraine, Afghanistan, Syria, China and each different nation on the planet. Not a litmus check for “good leftist politics” however a litmus check for understanding the necessity for worldwide solidarity amongst folks.

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Noting that lately the safety state of affairs within the occupied territory has continued to be risky, Zhang mentioned that his nation strongly condemns the continued violence by Israeli forces and the settlers, which has resulted in heavy Palestinian casualties, together with kids.

He urged Israel to launch as quickly as doable a legal investigation into the killing of iconic Palestinian-American Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, and launch its findings so as to guarantee accountability.

“The query of Palestine is a litmus check of the worldwide justice and equity,” Zhang mentioned whereas declaring that “the query of Palestine has been with out a answer for over 70 years, and that worldwide justice has been denied for over 70 years.”

He underlined the truth that adopting a disaster administration strategy to the Palestinian query just isn’t an alternative to a simply answer.

A brand new report has revealed that Israel’s development of unlawful settlements on Palestinian land elevated by 62 p.c below the federal government led by far-right Prime Minister Naftali Bennet, because it got here to energy in June 2021.https://t.co/39sVEQbCD8 pic.twitter.com/t6qNLIqbzP

— The Palestine Chronicle (@PalestineChron) June 28, 2022

He recalled that of their declaration launched following the 14^th BRICS Summit, convened on June 23 to 24, the leaders of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa reaffirmed their dedication to a peaceable and affluent Center East and North Africa, known as upon the worldwide group to assist efforts aimed on the stability and peace within the area.

As a accountable member of the worldwide group, China will probably be all the time on the aspect of peace and justice, on the aspect of human conscience and equity, and on the suitable aspect of historical past, he mentioned.

“We are going to firmly assist the simply explanation for the Palestinian folks to revive their authentic nationwide rights, and can proceed to make unremitting efforts for reaching complete, simply, and lasting peace within the Center East,” Zhang concluded.

(WAFA, PC, Social Media)