Israeli gunfire and airstrikes have killed at least 41 Palestinians across Gaza, local health authorities said, five of them near two aid sites operated by the US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF).

The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), the United States- and Israel-backed organisation established to supplant the aid work of the United Nations, has accused Hamas fighters of killing eight of its staff and wounding multiple others in an attack on a bus en route to a food distribution centre.

CAIRO (Reuters) -Israeli fire and airstrikes killed at least 25 Palestinians across Gaza on Sunday, local health authorities said, at least five of them near two aid sites operated by

Israeli occupation forces shot and killed several Palestinians on Sunday morning across various regions of the Gaza Strip.

The new group backed by Israel and the US for aid distribution in Gaza says Hamas attacked a bus transporting some of its Palestinian workers, killing at least five people.The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) said the attack happened on Wednesday night as the bus carrying more than two-dozen workers travelled to a distribution centre in southern Gaza,

The GHF began operations on May 26 after Israel completely cut off supplies into Gaza for more than two months. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Hamas gunmen allegedly opened fire on Palestinians working for an Israel-U.S.-backed humanitarian aid distribution operation, killing five and injuring several others.

An airstrike killed seven other people in Beit Lahiya town north of the enclave, medics said. In Nuseirat camp in central Gaza Strip, medics said an Israeli airstrike killed at least 11 people in a house. The rest were killed in separate airstrikes in the southern Gaza Strip, they added.

Netanyahu's office says Israel and the US are working in co-ordination "to cut off aid from reaching Hamas", as he escalates Israel's offensive in Gaza, arguing that "military pressure" will help force Hamas to release the hostages it holds.