Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Sunday met with Senegal's Foreign Minister Yacine Fall in Beijing, with both sides calling for deepening bilateral relations.
Wang, also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, said that China is willing to work with Senegal to promote the China-Senegal comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership to keep pace with the times. China is willing to work closely with Senegal to make the 2024 Summit of the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) another grand event that strengthens solidarity and friendship between China and Africa, he noted.
For her part, Fall said that the Senegal-China relationship is exemplary, with both countries demonstrating ongoing respect for one another.
She noted that Senegal will continue to work closely with China to ensure the success of the summit.
Senegalese President Bassirou Diomaye Faye will pay a state visit to China during the summit, marking his first visit to a country outside Africa, Fall said, adding that Senegal looks forward to using the visit to deepen Senegal-China comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership.
China, Senegal to deepen comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership: FMs
The ongoing Israeli offensives against the Gaza Strip have killed 41,182 Palestinians and injured another 95,200, according to data released by the Gaza-based health authorities on Saturday.
In the past 48 hours alone, the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza have resulted in 64 deaths and 155 injuries, the health authorities added.
In the early hours of Saturday, an Israeli warplane struck a residential house in the al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City, according to the Palestinian civil defense authorities.
The airstrike killed at least 11 Palestinians, including several women and children, the authorities said.
A statement issued by the Israeli military said that the airstrike targeted a Hamas commander.
The Israeli military also launched two bombings near schools sheltering displaced people - one in the northwestern part of Gaza City and another in southeastern Gaza City - resulting in 10 deaths.
However, the Israeli military has only acknowledged the latter strike, claiming that several Hamas militants were hiding in the school.
According to local sources and eyewitnesses, many people were killed in an Israeli shelling of a tent housing displaced people in the al-Mawasi area, west of Khan Younis City in the southern Gaza Strip.
The Israeli army has not yet commented on these incidents.
On Saturday, Israeli military spokesman Avichay Adraee issued an evacuation order via social media after two rockets were fired from Gaza towards the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon.
In his evacuation order, Adraee called on Palestinians in parts of Beit Lahia, a northern city near the Gaza-Israel border, to evacuate, saying that the designated area is "currently considered a dangerous combat zone."
Also on Saturday, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement condemning Israel's evacuation of Palestinians from the northern Gaza Strip as a dangerous act.
The ministry claimed that Israel's actions are a prelude to the annexation of Gaza's territory and establishment of Israeli settlements.
Palestinian death toll in Gaza rises to 41,182
