China ‘Ready’ to Help Israeli-Palestinian Peace as Netanyahu Plans Trip

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Beijing is willing to play a role in easing flaring Israeli-Palestinian tensions at a time when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he plans to visit the People's Republic, a Chinese official told Newsweek. With clashes still raging Monday over an ongoing large-scale Israel Defense Forces (IDF) operation against suspected armed Palestinian factions in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin, Chinese Embassy to the United States spokesperson Liu Pengyu told Newsweek that "China is deeply concerned about the escalation of conflict between Israel and Palestine and the deaths and injuries of innocent civilians. "China is opposed to unilateral actions...