Watch: Israel and the Palestinian military group Hamas have continued to escalate hostilities. Credits: Video - ITV News/Newshub; Image - Reuters
New Zealand Foreign Affairs Minister Nanaia Mahuta is calling on both Israel and Hamas to de-escalate hostilities amid the most serious outbreak of fighting in several years.
The violence continues to escalate with at least 35 killed in Gaza and five in Israel. Israel carried out hundreds of airstrikes in Gaza into Wednesday morning (local time), as the Islamist group and other Palestinian militants fired multiple rocket barrages at Tel Aviv and Beersheba.
Israel says its jets have targeted and killed several Hamas intelligence leaders, while other strikes targeted Hamas offices and the homes of Hamas leaders.
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Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, Labour s leader, said genocide had a specific meaning that needed to be considered. What is being discussed today will be a response to a very particular issue of whether or not a genocide is declared, Ardern told reporters. The use of that term in the international environment, there is international law that sits around it. There will be a discussion around what should we be pushing for so that we have support for the international community to build evidence around that next step. That does not undermine the current position that we have which is very strong.
New Zealand PM says differences with China ‘becoming harder to reconcile’
By ANI| Posted by Mansoor | Published: 3rd May 2021 11:06 pm IST
Wellington: New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said that differences between Wellington and Beijing’s values and interests are “becoming harder to reconcile”.
In a speech at the China Business Summit in Auckland on Sunday, the New Zealand Prime Minister said there were issues on which China and New Zealand “do not, cannot, and will not agree”, but said those differences need not define their relationship.
“It will not have escaped the attention of anyone here that as China’s role in the world grows and changes, the differences between our systems and the interests and values that shape those systems are becoming harder to reconcile,” she said, adding that “This is a challenge that we, and many other countries across the Indo-Pacific region, but also in Europe and other regions, are also grappling