BEIJING, China - Chinese envoy Zhai Jun will visit the Middle East next week to push for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict and promote peace talks, state broadcaster CCTV reported Sunday.
Agence France-PresseBEIJING, China - Chinese envoy Zhai Jun will visit the Middle East next week to push for a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas conflict and promote peace talks, state broadcaster CCTV reported Sunday.
The CCTV report came as Israel appeared poised for a ground offensive against Hamas militants in Gaza. The cramped and impoverished territory, where 2.3 million residents live on top of each other, has been under a land, air and sea blockade since 2006. In Gaza, health officials said Israel's response had killed more than 2,200 people. As on the Israeli side, most of them were civilians.
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