China: We will continue to defend the Palestinian cause and support the two-state solution

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The Chinese Foreign Ministry said in a statement that Minister Wang Yi expressed, on Thursday, Beijing’s support for the Palestinians, stressing that China will continue to defend the Palestinian cause.

"The Palestinian issue must not be marginalized," Wang told his Palestinian counterpart Farsin Aghabekian Shaheen in Baku.

Wang called on all peace-loving countries to support the two-state solution.

Meanwhile, the British newspaper "The Guardian" reported that Israel refuses to allow a project to proceed to establish an advanced military site in the Gaza Strip for the peace council of US President Donald Trump.

In early August, the Peace Council, an international body mandated by the United Nations in 2025 and headed by the US President, issued its first construction contract in Gaza, assigning the “Arkel International” company, which is based in the US state of Louisiana, the task of building an advanced military site that accommodates 150 international soldiers, to be the vanguard of an international stabilization force.

Two months later, Israel still refuses to allow the contract to be implemented, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter. Contractors and trucks are not allowed to enter Gaza and start work. The source said, "Israel will not open the crossing," according to what was reported by the German News Agency.

On the ground, a Palestinian was killed and others were injured today, Thursday, as a result of an Israeli drone bombing that targeted a group of citizens northwest of Gaza City.

The Palestinian News and Information Agency (Wafa) reported that “a citizen was killed and others were injured after an occupation drone bombed a group of citizens in the vicinity of the Ebad al-Rahman School on Al-Jalaa Street, northwest of Gaza City.”

In turn, the Gaza Municipality announced today that “its crews found the body of a dead person who was wearing winter clothes during their field work on Al-Rashid Street near the Al-Baidar area, west of Gaza City.”

The municipality said, in a post on its Facebook page, that crews transported the body to Al-Shifa Hospital, where it was handed over to the hospital administration to complete the necessary procedures.