Palestinian UN envoy says Israel using aid as 'weapon of war'
Riyad Mansour, the Palestinian ambassador to the UN, slammed Israel on Wednesday at the UN Security Council for using aid as "a weapon of war" and putting starving Palestinians in "cages"
"The images of hungry, desperate people storming out of the cages they were forced into, in order to get aid, is gut-wrenching and heartbreaking. These are people, human beings, deprived of water, food, medicine for so long, and hanging to life by a thread," Mansour said.
Palestinians have been forced into metal fence barricades as they wait for aid from the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation.
"After seeing starvation being used as a weapon of war, now we see aid being used as a weapon of war," he said.
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