China denounces US-Israeli plan for Gaza aid distribution

China's UN envoy has weighed in on the US-Israeli plan for Gaza's aid distribution, and demanded that Israel "fulfil its obligations as the occupying power under international humanitarian law by immediately lifting the blockade and restoring full access to supplies".

Addressing the UN Security Council, Fu Cong said that Gaza "has become a living hell," noting that the entire population of the strip is suffering from severe food shortages according to the global hunger monitor, the IPC.

Referring to the US, Cong said that a "certain country has proposed the so-called humanitarian distribution plan," which UN agencies have "categorically rejected".