China, UAE call for ceasefire at UN

China and the UAE have released a joint statement at the United Nations calling for an immediate ceasefire to the fighting in Gaza.

“We call for an urgent humanitarian ceasefire,” China’s Ambassador Zhang Jun said. 

“Civilians in Gaza cannot even find safety in UN facilities, hospitals and refugee camps,” Lana Zaki Nusseibeh, the UAE's ambassador to the UN added. 

“Wars have laws,” she said. “And they must be upheld.”

The joint statement was released after the UN Security Council on Monday failed to reach a resolution to the war.

The US has called for “humanitarian pauses” to stop the fighting, but other members want a “humanitarian ceasefire.”