by Clement Tan at CNBC
- More than 1,400 mostly civilians have been killed in Israel in the week after the Hamas militant group staged the worst assault on Israel since the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
- Israel last week pounded Gaza in airstrikes that have killed at least 2,670, cut off food, water, fuel and electricity to the Palestinian enclave, and ordered civilians to evacuate northern Gaza ahead of an expected ground assault aimed at eradicating Hamas.
China urged Israel to stop its collective punishment of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, as the U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken raced through the Middle East over the weekend in an attempt to stave off a wider war in the region.
It’s been more than a week after the Hamas militant group staged its worst assault on Israel since the 1973 Yom Kippur War, killing at least 1,400 mostly civilians in the Jewish state.
Israel’s actions have gone beyond self-defense and it should heed the call of the international community. – Wang Yi
“The exercise of the right of self-defense should abide by international humanitarian law and should not be at the expense of innocent civilian casualties,” Wang was reported to have said, in a separate call with his Turkish counterpart, Hakan Fidan.
Wang’s comments came in a series of calls over the weekend,…