A woman washes clothes by hand in a basin outside tents at a camp sheltering displaced Palestinians erected in a school run by the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 13, 2024. (PHOTO / AFP)

BEIJING - The United States needs to abandon the double standards on human rights issues and stop making political displays on humanitarian issues in Gaza, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin said on Wednesday.

Wang made the remarks at a regular press briefing in response to a press statement released by US Secretary of State Antony Blinken on March 12, which said that Ramadan comes at a time of conflict and pain for many Muslim communities, including Uygurs in Xinjiang, Rohingya in Burma and Bangladesh, and Palestinians in Gaza.

What the United States needs to do is not to release a hypocritical statement on Ramadan with empty words but take concrete actions to save the lives of Muslims in Gaza.

Wang Wenbin, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson 

Xinjiang enjoys social stability, economic growth and harmony among different regions, Wang said, stressing that the human rights of Uygurs and other ethnic groups there have been fully safeguarded.

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"It's Gaza not Xinjiang that suffers from the conflict. It's millions of Muslims in Gaza not Muslims in Xinjiang that suffer from hunger, deportation and killing," said Wang.

Wang urged the United States to stop singularly hindering the UN Security Council's efforts for a ceasefire in Gaza.

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"What the United States needs to do is not to release a hypocritical statement on Ramadan with empty words but take concrete actions to save the lives of Muslims in Gaza," the spokesperson said.