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Palestinian emergency services and local citizens search for victims in buildings destroyed during Israeli raids in the southern Gaza Strip on October 17, 2023 in Khan Yunis, Gaza.
Iran has warned of a possible “pre-emptive action” against Israel as it prepares a ground offensive on the Gaza Strip. There are also fears that Lebanon-based Hezbollah, which is also backed by Iran, could open up a second front with Israel. Blinken’s plea to Beijing could be based on the hope that “China’s supposed proximity to a wide range of players – from the Palestinians, to Iran, to Saudi Arabia and more – would be something they would leverage”, said Raffaello Pantucci, a senior fellow at Singapore’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.
With Israel and Hamas, Beijing is “trying to initiate something which others have struggled to initiate and keep going for a long time… between two adversaries who are locked into a deathly struggle with each other”.China has for years failed to make progress on the decades-long deadlock between Israel and the Palestinians, despite repeatedly pushing a vague proposal at the United Nations calling for a two-state solution.
But on Sunday Foreign Minister Wang said Israel was now acting “beyond the scope of self-defence” and slammed what he described as its “collective punishment of the people of Gaza”. This could be an issue because while Iran has applauded Hamas’s attack, it has denied playing any role in it.
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