Financial Associated Press, September 22, according to the World Wide Web, at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on September 22, a reporter asked that the tension in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict has further escalated recently, resulting in a large number of Palestinian civilian casualties and displacement. We have noticed that many countries have successively announced their recognition of the Palestinian state, including the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and other Western countries. However, at the same time, the United States is still selling weapons and equipment to Israel and claims to discuss with the Gulf countries a post-war temporary governance structure for Gaza. What is China's comment on this?

Guo Jiakun presided over the regular press conference of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs

In this regard, spokesman Guo Jiakun said that ending the conflict at an early date and building lasting peace are the common aspirations of the people of Palestine, Israel and the Middle East, and are also the top priorities of the international community. Gaza belongs to the Palestinian people and is an inalienable part of the Palestinian territory. China believes that under the current situation, it is necessary to promote a comprehensive ceasefire in Gaza with the greatest sense of urgency and alleviate the humanitarian disaster. Countries that have special influence on Israel should earnestly take responsibility, let the principle of "Palestinians governing Palestine" be truly implemented, and safeguard the legitimate rights of the Palestinian nation on the issue of post-war governance and reconstruction arrangements. We must unswervingly adhere to the "two-state solution", gather more international consensus, and reject any unilateral actions that erode the foundation of the two-state solution.

Guo Jiakun said that force can't bring peace, and violence can't bring security. China is willing to work with the international community to continue to work for the ceasefire and war in Gaza and firmly support the just cause of the Palestinian people to restore their legitimate national rights. Make unremitting efforts for an early, comprehensive, just and lasting settlement of the Palestinian question.

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Netanyahu: There will never be a Palestinian state until I come back from the U.S.

According to CNN, on September 21, local time, the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia announced their official recognition of the Palestinian state. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu responded on the same day that it is "absolutely impossible" that there will be a Palestinian state, and threatened countries that recognized the Palestinian state to "wait and see".

Speaking about the recent multi-state recognition of the Palestinian State, Netanyahu posted a video on 21 January saying: ¡°I want to tell you that this will never succeed, that a Palestinian state will never be established west of the Jordan River. Over the years, I have always prevented the establishment of this ¡®terrorist state¡¯.

"I will respond to the latest attempt to create a 'terrorist state' in the heart of our land when I return from the United States. Wait and see," Netanyahu threatened.

On September 21, local time, in response to the recent recognition of the Palestinian state by many countries, Netanyahu released a video response screenshot

France, Belgium and other countries are expected to recognize the State of Palestine this week during the 80th United Nations High-Level Session. Netanyahu is scheduled to travel to New York this week to attend events such as the General Assembly debate and he is also expected to go to the White House to meet U.S. President Trump.

Netanyahu¡¯s statement clearly suggests that he has gained support from the Trump administration, and that without Trump¡¯s support, Netanyahu has little to do with options.But with this support, Netanyahu would think that under the U.S. ¡°paraply¡± he could almost ¡°do what he wanted.¡±

In addition, Netanyahu's statement may imply that the annexation of the occupied West Bank is being discussed within Israel. Netanyahu's far-right allies are pressing him for more aggressive action, calling on Israel to annex the entire West Bank or much of it.

Earlier, Treasury Minister Smootrich said the ¡°only response¡± would be to annex the entire West Bank and ¡°completely remove the stupid idea of establishing a Palestinian state from the agenda.¡±

Former Israeli Consul General Pincus predicted that if Israel is about to annex the West Bank, it is unlikely to annex a large area, but symbolically annex "a piece of land in Area C that no one pays attention to." The "Area C" he mentioned refers to the area in the West Bank where Israel is responsible for security and civil control.

Pincus said Israel had "sufficient early warning time" for countries to acknowledge that the Palestinian state was prepared and that they had enough time to conduct diplomatic operations while showing goodwill and goodwill by mitigating the humanitarian situation in Gaza, but did not."

According to CNN, these countries recognize the Palestinian state and instead make the Israeli government more disrespectful in its diplomatic conflict with more and more Western countries. In Netanyahu¡¯s worldview, the only country Israel needs is the United States, and he does have the public support of the Trump administration.

When U.S. Secretary of State Rubio visited Israel last week, he said that he had repeatedly communicated with countries planning to recognize the Palestinian state, trying to convince them that the move would be "counterproductive." However, all the countries that have stated that they will recognize the Palestinian state have not changed their policies.

With more international recognition, Palestinian territories are "not much left"

The German Frankfurter Zeitung website published an article on September 20 entitled "Palestine has little left", which says that when more international recognition is reached, Palestine has actually little left.

About three-quarters of the UN member states have already recognized the Palestinian state.Now important roles on the international stage such as Australia, France, Britain will follow.The Palestinian Authority calls it a ¡°historic turning point¡± and predicts that the 58-year occupation of Israel is about to become history.

But this deliberately expressed optimism is purely fantasy, and the reality is cruel: as more and more countries recognize the Palestinian state, Palestine is becoming more and more incapable of calling it a state.

The article says that Palestine is divided into three parts: the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza.These three areas are home to about 5.5 million Palestinians, but their situation is different.This is because East Jerusalem has been annexed by Israel; the West Bank is occupied to varying degrees, with half a million Israeli settlers living there; and Gaza has been ruled by Palestinians since the Israeli army withdrew in 2005.

The face of Palestinian cities

Gaza on the coast is undoubtedly the most severe situation. Israel has been fighting there for nearly two years since it suffered an unprecedented and brutal terrorist attack by Hamas. For some time, military operations against Hamas have been virtually endless, with devastating consequences for the local population. More and more people believe that Israel is fighting a war of destruction against the Palestinians in Gaza and engaging in genocide. The Israeli government and army categorically deny it, but do not deny that they want to expel residents from Gaza. This is partly pretended as a humanitarian measure.

Netanyahu's speech picture

The Palestinian people are in danger not only in Gaza, but also in the West Bank. As a direct consequence of Hamas's terrorist attacks on Israel, there has been a surge in atrocities by Israeli armed settlers. These people break into the villages of poor Palestinian herders day and night, harass the residents, steal their flocks and deprive them of their livelihood. Nowadays, large areas of land have become "forbidden zones" for Palestinians. The outside world feels that the Israeli military police are cooperating with these settlers, but the Israeli authorities have done little to dispel this impression.

The article stated that in recent years, the nature of the Israeli occupation has undergone significant changes and is close to what experts call "de facto annexation": although Palestine still does not nominally belong to Israel, more and more regulations and administrative structures are following Israel's example. Settlers have considerable influence in Netanyahu's government, and these people are getting closer and closer to its goal of de facto annexing the occupied territories to Israel. But it is unknown whether they can do the same legally soon.

Also unknown is the fate of the Palestinians. Israel certainly does not want to grant citizenship to Palestinians. The current trend is that Palestinians' freedom of movement is increasingly restricted. For example, in recent months, the Israeli military has built yellow iron gates on many roads, which can block roads, villages and towns at any time. The Palestinian Authority says there are currently more than 1,200 such yellow iron gates in the West Bank.

Israeli Treasury Minister Smotrich recently proposed the annexation of 82% of the land on the West Bank. According to the map he presented, only six towns were excluded. That is, this is what a Palestinian state might look like: 6 squares of land blocked by the Yellow Iron Gate.