Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi criticized Israel’s response to this month’s surprise assault by Hamas. In a Saturday call with Prince Faisal bin Farhan, his Saudi Arabia counterpart, Wang said that Israel’s call for civilians in northern Gaza to leave for their own safety had “gone beyond the scope of self-defense,” according to a readout released on Sunday by China’s Foreign Ministry. “Israel should earnestly listen to the calls of the international community and the United Nations secretary-general and stop imposing collective punishment on the people of Gaza,” Wang said, according to the readout, reiterating China’s longstanding call for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine crisis.
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