FASHION WEEK
- All
- Abdel Fatah al-Sisi
- Africa
- Americas
- Amnesty International
- Amos Oz
- Angela Merkel
- Antisemitism
- Arab and Middle East unrest
- Archaeology
- Arms trade
- Art
- Asia Pacific
- Australia news
- Australian foreign policy
- Australian police and policing
- Australian politics
- Australian security and counter-terrorism
- Austria
- Autobiography and memoir
- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
- Bahrain
- Baltimore Orioles
- Baseball
- Bashar al-Assad
- Belgium
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Bereavement
- Bernie Sanders
- Bhutan
- Biden administration
- Bill Clinton
- Biography books
- Biology
- Books
- Boris Johnson
- Breaking News
- Business
- Canada
- Cannabis
- Catholicism
- Channel Islands
- China
- Christianity
- CIA
- Coalition
- Computing
- Coronavirus
- Coronavirus outbreak
- Culture
- Czech Republic
- Democrats
- Denmark
- Documentary films
- Dominic Raab
- Donald Trump
- Drama films
- Easter
- Egypt
- Ehud Barak
- Elon Musk
- Energy
- England
- Environment
- Espionage
- Ethiopia
- Europe
- European Union
- Evangelical Christianity
- Featured
- Film
- Florida
- Food
- Food & drink industry
- Football
- Foreign policy
- Forensic science
- France
- G7
- Gaza
- George Floyd
- Germany
- Global development
- Globalisation
- Guernsey
- Hacking
- Hamas
- Hassan Rouhani
- Health
- Health policy
- Heritage
- Hezbollah
- Holocaust
- Hong Kong
- Howard Jacobson
- Human rights
- Hungary
- India
- Indigenous Australians
- Indigenous recognition
- Indigenous voice to parliament
Israel-Hamas war live: Hamas attacks Israeli city of Ashkelon with rocket...
Militant group warned civilians to leave before 5pm local time, while rocket strikes also reported in Israeli cities including Tel Aviv
The US senate majority leader, Chuck Schumer, has criticised China’s response to the Israel-Hamas conflict while in China, calling on the government there to show more support for Israel.
Schumer spoke repeatedly about China’s response, including directly to China’s leader, Xi Jinping, on Monday, during a rare meeting on a multi-day trip to the country.
“I urge you and the Chinese people to stand with the Israeli people and condemn the cowardly and vicious attacks upon them,” he told Xi in Beijing.
Earlier he had accused China’s foreign minister Wang Yi of showing “no sympathy or support for Israel during these tough, troubled times.”
On Sunday, China’s foreign ministry released a statement calling on “relevant parties” to end to hostilities and protect civilians. It said “the fundamental way out of the conflict lies in implementing the two-state solution and establishing an independent State of Palestine”.
Speaking in Shanghai, Schumer said he was “very disappointed” with China’s initial statement. He also said he had asked for China to use its “influence” on Iran to “not allow the conflagration to spread”. On Monday, at the first daily press conference since a week-long holiday break in China, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokesperson Mao Ning responded to Schumer’s criticism by reiterating Beijing’s concern over the conflict and calling for peace.
Facing multiple questions on the topic, Mao said China was closely following the “recent escalation of tensions”.
“We are deeply saddened by the civilian casualties caused by the conflict and oppose and condemn acts that harm civilians. China opposes escalating the conflict and destabilising the region.”
GADGET WORLD
- All
- Abdel Fatah al-Sisi
- Africa
- Americas
- Amnesty International
- Amos Oz
- Angela Merkel
- Antisemitism
- Arab and Middle East unrest
- Archaeology
- Arms trade
- Art
- Asia Pacific
- Australia news
- Australian foreign policy
- Australian police and policing
- Australian politics
- Australian security and counter-terrorism
- Austria
- Autobiography and memoir
- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei
- Bahrain
- Baltimore Orioles
- Baseball
- Bashar al-Assad
- Belgium
- Benjamin Netanyahu
- Bereavement
- Bernie Sanders
- Bhutan
- Biden administration
- Bill Clinton
- Biography books
- Biology
- Books
- Boris Johnson
- Breaking News
- Business
- Canada
- Cannabis
- Catholicism
- Channel Islands
- China
- Christianity
- CIA
- Coalition
- Computing
- Coronavirus
- Coronavirus outbreak
- Culture
- Czech Republic
- Democrats
- Denmark
- Documentary films
- Dominic Raab
- Donald Trump
- Drama films
- Easter
- Egypt
- Ehud Barak
- Elon Musk
- Energy
- England
- Environment
- Espionage
- Ethiopia
- Europe
- European Union
- Evangelical Christianity
- Featured
- Film
- Florida
- Food
- Food & drink industry
- Football
- Foreign policy
- Forensic science
- France
- G7
- Gaza
- George Floyd
- Germany
- Global development
- Globalisation
- Guernsey
- Hacking
- Hamas
- Hassan Rouhani
- Health
- Health policy
- Heritage
- Hezbollah
- Holocaust
- Hong Kong
- Howard Jacobson
- Human rights
- Hungary
- India
- Indigenous Australians
- Indigenous recognition
- Indigenous voice to parliament
BEST Smartphones
Crises on multiple fronts threaten Benjamin Netanyahu’s grip on power
Support for prime minister wanes as his ‘plot to overturn Israel’s democracy’ is seen as threat to national security
On Friday afternoon, Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, found himself standing at the side of a remote road in the vast desert valley that runs the length of the occupied West Bank’s frontier with Jordan.
Along with his defence minister, Yoav Galant, Netanyahu was inspecting the scene of a shooting attack earlier in the day that killed British-Israeli sisters Maia and Rina Dee, 20 and 15, and left their 45-year-old mother Lucy fighting for her life. An Israel Defence Forces (IDF) search for the perpetrator is still under way.
Continue reading...