China praises Egypt’s role in reaching ceasefire in Gaza

China praised, on Thursday, the efforts made by Egypt for reaching a ceasefire between the Israeli and Palestinian sides, expressing at the same time its willingness to enhance exchanges and coordination with various parties for providing humanitarian aids to the Palestinian side.

This came in a statement made by the Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman, "Zhao Lijian", commenting on China's special envoy to the Middle East Zhai Jun’s phone calls with officials of the Egyptian and Palestinian foreign ministries, as part of efforts to end the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

After 11 days of the Israeli aggression on Gaza, the state of calm was restored in the Strip on Friday, after a ceasefire truce between Israel and Hamas was reached at the hour set by Egypt, following brokering the agreement.

Calm prevailed throughout Gaza during the early hours of this morning, there are no raids, Israeli artillery shelling, or any rockets fired from the Palestinian factions towards Tel Aviv.

The Israeli missile attacks on Gaza resulted in the death of 232 Palestinians, including 65 children, 39 women, and 17 elderly people, while more than 1900 were wounded, of which 90 were classified as extremely dangerous.