According to a statement on the website of the Chinese Foreign Ministry, on March 17, its envoy, Ambassador Wang Kejian met with Ismail Haniyeh, Politburo Chairman of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas, during Wang’s visit to Qatar, where they exchanged views on the Gaza conflict and other issues.
The Palestine Chronicle further reports that:
“According to a statement released by Hamas, Haniyeh ‘emphasised the necessity of quickly stopping the (Israeli) aggression and massacres (in Gaza), the withdrawal of the occupation army, the return of the displaced, providing shelter and (the) reconstruction (of the Strip).’
“Haniyeh also reportedly ‘praised the role that China plays in the Security Council, the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, and in sending humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.’
“For his part, Beijing’s envoy ‘affirmed the close and historical relationship between the Palestinian and Chinese peoples and China’s firm positions towards the Palestinian cause and its support for the just demands of the Palestinian people for freedom, independence, and the establishment of a state.’
“Wang Kejian also ‘emphasised the necessity of stopping this war and ending the killing that the Palestinians are subjected to and providing for their humanitarian needs.’”
The Jerusalem Post further reported that: “[Wang] Keijan visited Israel and the Palestinian Authority last week, meeting with diplomats and discussing the war in Gaza… Additionally, according to Hamas, [Wang] Keijan stressed to Haniyeh that ‘the Hamas movement is part of the Palestinian national fabric and China is keen on relations with it.’”
The following article was originally published by the Palestine Chronicle.
A Chinese foreign ministry envoy met with Ismail Haniyeh, head of the political bureau of the Palestinian Resistance movement Hamas, Beijing’s foreign ministry confirmed in a statement on Tuesday.
In the brief statement, the Chinese ministry said that Chinese Ambassador Wang Kejian met Haniyeh in Doha, Qatar, on Sunday, and that the two “exchanged views on the Gaza conflict and other issues”.
According to a statement released by Hamas, Haniyeh “emphasized the necessity of quickly stopping the (Israeli) aggression and massacres (in Gaza), the withdrawal of the occupation army, the return of the displaced, providing shelter and (the) reconstruction (of the Strip).”
Haniyeh also reportedly “praised the role that China plays in the Security Council, the United Nations, the International Court of Justice, and in sending humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip.”
For his part, Beijing’s envoy “affirmed the close and historical relationship between the Palestinian and Chinese peoples and China’s firm positions towards the Palestinian cause and its support for the just demands of the Palestinian people for freedom, independence, and the establishment of a state.”
Wang Kejian also “emphasized the necessity of stopping this war and ending the killing that the Palestinians are subjected to and providing for their humanitarian needs.”
This is reportedly the first such meeting between Hamas and China since the beginning of the Israeli war on Gaza, following the military operation carried out on October 7 by Hamas and other Palestinian Resistance groups in southern Israel.
Right to Armed Struggle
Unlike Washington, which gave total backing to Israel to continue with its war on Gaza, thus refusing international calls for ceasefire, the Chinese position called for the respect of international law.
Beijing’s position went further by openly supporting the Palestinian people’s right to the use of armed struggle to achieve national liberation.
Addressing the International Court of Justice on February 22, the Chinese representative said the Palestinians’ use of armed struggle to gain independence from foreign and colonial rule is “legitimate” and “well-founded” in international law.
“In pursuit of the right to self-determination, Palestinian people’s use of force to resist foreign oppression and complete the establishment of an independent state is (an) inalienable right well founded in international law,” Ma Xinmin told the International Court of Justice in The Hague.
Citing resolutions by the UN General Assembly, Beijing’s envoy to the top world court said that people struggling for self-determination could use “all available means, including armed struggle.”
“The struggle waged by peoples for their liberation, right to self-determination, including armed struggle against colonialism, occupation, aggression, domination against foreign forces should not be considered terror acts,” Ma stated in his address to the ICJ, citing international conventions.
Gaza Genocide
Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 31,819 Palestinians have been killed, and 73,934 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
Moreover, at least 7,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by ‘friendly fire.’
I am from Vancouver,Canada and i wanted to say that the US Gov’t never cared about Humanity. The second World War proved that. President Roosevelt wanted to enter the second Wold War to make money. There was no bombs dropping in the USA so that wasn’t a problem. He needed a reason to enter the war because the American People didn’t want to be part of the war.
So Roosevelt blocked Japan from getting Oil for its war preparations.Roosevelt knew Japan would do something but he didn’t know what. He found out when Pearl Harbor was bombed and many US Sailors were killed. That didn’t bother Roosevelt. The next day the main Newspapers in the USA read: Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor for no reason, Now the USA got to enter the War. Roosevelt got what he wanted! He didn’t care about the death of the American Sailors.
In Palestine it is the same. Biden don’t care about the Israeli Genocide. He wants to support Genocidal Israel.The whole World supports Gaza and the rest of Palestine and that support will continue while there is a Genocidal Israel.
Today the US Gov’t tried to fool the world by calling for an Immediate Gaza Ceasefire.But it didn’t work. The USA is an Enemy of Palestine not a Friend. Biden should: Wake Up, Snap Out of It!