Chinese Ambassador To Israel Found Dead In His Home

'Dotun Akintomide
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China’s Ambassador to Israel, Du Wei, was found dead inside his official residence Sunday morning, Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.

The death of the 57-year-old occurred amid the daily war of words between US and China over the Coronavirus outbreak in Wuhan, even though the Ambassador’s death is not being treated as suspicious at the moment.

Police are outside the ambassador’s residence in Herzliya — to the north of Tel Aviv — as part of standard procedure, a spokeswoman at Israeli Ministry said.

His death comes less than a week after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo visited Jerusalem, openly criticizing China’s actions during the coronavirus pandemic, as well as calling on Israeli leaders to stop signing major infrastructure and communications deals with Chinese companies.

There has been no comment on the ambassador’s death from the Chinese embassy in Israel or the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing.

Ambassador Du assumed his current role in Israel in February 2020, according to the embassy’s webpage, as the coronavirus pandemic was sweeping across the globe. He wrote in an article in the Jerusalem Post in mid-March that he immediately had to enter two weeks of mandatory self-quarantine on his arrival.

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