Israel says Hamas ‘weaponising suffering in Gaza’ as aid workers killed

Israel charged Thursday that Hamas was “weaponising suffering in Gaza” after a US and Israeli-backed charity accused the Palestinian militant group of killing five of its aid workers in the territory.

The distribution of food and basic supplies in the blockaded and war-ravaged Gaza Strip has become increasingly fraught and perilous, exacerbating the territory’s deep hunger crisis.

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said a bus carrying its staff to a distribution site near the southern city…