The United States is still working in hopes of a UN Security Council resolution on Gaza, the White House has said, after repeated delays over language opposed by Israel on aid monitoring.

“We’re still actively working with our UN partners about the resolution and on the language itself,” AFP reports National Security Council spokesman John Kirby as saying.

The deputy US envoy at the UN, Robert Wood, earlier said that the United States was not yet at a point where it could support a draft text proposed by the United Arab Emirates.

A sticking point has been calls for UN monitoring of aid entering the beleaguered Gaza Strip, where 85 per cent of the population has been displaced by a relentless Israeli military offensive launched after an October 7 attack by Hamas inside Israel.