China urges Israel to halt ‘forced establishment’ of settlement expansion in occupied West Bank

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Thursday urged Israel to halt “forced establishment” of settlements in the occupied West Bank and called for the full reopening of access to the Gaza Strip, Anadolu reports. Beijing maintains that the Palestinian question is the “biggest historical injustice of this century” and that the two-state solution is the correct path to resolving it, Wang told Israeli President Isaac Herzog during a meeting in Baku, Azerbaijan, on the sidelines of the seventh CICA summit. He described the current regional situation as tense and added that peace and tranquility remained far from being achieved. The Chinese foreign minister said the urgent priority was to fully reopen access to Gaza to prevent its two million residents […]