Special Envoy of the Chinese Government on the Middle East Issue Zhai Jun had a phone call with Assistant Minister of the Palestine Department in the Egyptian Ministry of Foreign Affairs Osama Khedr on the Palestine-Israel situation.

Zhai Jun said that China is deeply concerned over the current escalation of tensions and violence between Palestine and Israel, and deeply saddened by the high number of civilian casualties caused by the conflict. China opposes and condemns acts that harm civilians, and calls for an immediate ceasefire.

 The root cause of the cycle of conflict between Palestine and Israel is that the Palestine question still has not been settled in a just manner, and the fundamental way out lies in implementing the two-state solution. 

The international community should make earnest efforts to advance the two-state solution with the greatest sense of urgency. China is ready to maintain communication and coordination with Egypt, promote the two parties to the conflict to cease fire and end violence, encourage the international community to form synergy, and provide the Palestinian people with humanitarian support, so as to avoid the humanitarian crisis in Palestine, in particular the Gaza Strip, from being even escalated.

Osama Khedr highly appreciated China's long-standing just position on the Palestine question, and emphasized that a full and just settlement of the Palestine question should be promoted in accordance with relevant resolutions of the United Nations and on the basis of the two-state solution. The international community should shoulder the responsibility to create conditions for restarting the peace process between Palestine and Israel. Egypt looks forward to working with China to make efforts to promote the de-escalation of the situation.