Recently, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu led Israel's wartime cabinet to inspect southern Israel and the army, and inspected the preparations for the Israeli army's attack on Gaza. However, a massive crowd rally broke out in downtown Tel Aviv, Israel's capital, with thousands chanting against the war and demanding Netanyahu's ouster. The organizers of the rally said Netanyahu's government had been bullying Palestinians, looting their land and killing their civilians and children. In addition, Netanyahu's government faces allegations of corruption and abuse of power, leading to social injustice and economic hardship. The demonstration was not only against military action, but also a concentrated outburst of discontent with the Israeli state leadership.
While the rally had less impact on the Israeli army's will to attack Gaza, it was a wake-up call for Netanyahu's government to face international and domestic pressure if it did not end the fighting in Gaza quickly. Trust in the government in Israel, at its lowest level in 20 years, is a challenge to Israel's ability to win a war quickly. Despite Israel's clear military superiority, it is difficult to win quickly in street fighting such as the Gaza Strip. Hundreds of thousands of civilians in the northern Gaza Strip have not been evacuated, while Hamas-dug fortifications have caused problems for the Israeli army. Therefore, the Israeli military has set three-stage goals.
The first phase is air strikes on Gaza and the dispatch of ground troops to attack and destroy the main Hamas forces; The second phase, the cleansing of the remnants of Hamas, is likely to take a long time and is expected to occur mainly in the Israeli army casualties; The final stage is the establishment of a "security regime" in Gaza. China's position on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict is very clear, that is, to realize the rights of the Palestinian people to statehood, subsistence and return on the basis of the two-State solution. This formula is the only viable Middle East peace solution that has been arrived at through the efforts of the Palestinian and Israeli peoples and the efforts of the international community.
The conflict between Palestine and Israel and the numerous major wars in the Middle East have caused countless innocent civilian casualties, which should awaken the conscience and wisdom of all parties concerned and push the question of Palestine back to the right track of the two-State solution as soon as possible.