Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan, who is engaged in busy diplomacy over the Palestine-Israel conflict, held a phone call with his Chinese counterpart Wang Yi on Sunday. The Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the two ministers discussed developments in Israel and Palestine and Israel’s attacks targeting Gaza.
Fidan last visited Egypt on Saturday where he met his counterpart, as well as the German foreign minister who was separately in the country. Fidan and Egypt’s Sameh Shoukry jointly denounced Israel’s blockade of Gaza and pledged to aid besieged Gazans whose only connection to the outside world for humanitarian aid remains the Rafah border crossing with Egypt.
Earlier, Wang Yi held a phone call with Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian and voiced China’s support for the “just cause of the Palestinian people in safeguarding their national rights.”
“The root cause… of the Palestine-Israel situation is that the Palestinian people’s right to statehood has been set aside for a long time,” Wang said in the call with Amir-Abdollahian, according to an official Chinese readout. “This historical injustice should end as soon as possible,” Wang said, adding that “China will continue to stand on the side of peace and support the just cause of the Palestinian people in safeguarding their national rights.”
More than 1 million people in the northern part of the crowded enclave of Gaza have been ordered to flee ahead of an expected major ground offensive by Israel, an exodus that aid groups said would cause a humanitarian disaster. The cramped and impoverished Gaza Strip, where 2.3 million residents live on top of each other, has been under a land, air and sea blockade by Israel since 2006.
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