China’s representative to the UN Security Council has given his comments on the latest Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank.

Here is a translated summary of what he said:

• “In the occupied West Bank Israel continues to violate international law and [UN Security] council resolutions.”
• “[Israel’s] settlements continue to grow and it ramps up searches, arrests and raids against Palestinians.”
• “The Israeli military launched a large-scale military operation targeting Tulkarem, Jenin and Tubas among others in the West Bank … China strongly condemns this.”
• “Senior Israeli officials in the government recently spoke of using the same approach in the [occupied] West Bank as they have employed in operations in Gaza … We are shocked and seriously concerned by such extreme remarks that risk global condemnation. Gaza has now been turned into hell on earth.”
• “We must never allow the same humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza to happen in the West Bank, which will turn the West Bank into another hell on earth.”