Beijing (AFP) – China’s foreign ministry says it is “deeply shocked” by Israel’s air strikes on Hezbollah strongholds in Lebanon after at least 558 people, including 50 children, were killed in the deadliest bombardment since a devastating war in 2006. Hezbollah and Israel have been exchanging near-daily cross-border fire for almost a year, following Palestinian militant group Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel.
