Multiple aid workers were killed after a bus was attacked in Gaza on Wednesday night, according to a US-backed humanitarian aid organization which accused Hamas of carrying out the assault.

Israel’s use of aid as a weapon of war has provoked outrage. It has prevented essential supplies from entering Gaza. And yet its new effort to distribute aid is also proving deeply controversial. Hamas says it is a front for the idf. International aid organisations have decried it. What is this new network and what is it trying to do?

The open-source intelligence team is investigating allegations by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) that a bus carrying more than two dozen local Palestinian workers was attacked by Hamas. The BBC has reported the story here.