The almost 20 months of war has torn Gaza apart, often displacing residents multiple times and killing more than 54,000 people, according to the Hamas-run Health Ministry. A U.S.-brokered ceasefire agreed in January collapsed in March as Israel enforced a blockade on all humanitarian aid into the strip.

Israel has issued a stern warning that it is prepared to raid the Gaza-bound Freedom Flotilla ship ‘Madleen,’ which carries humanitarian aid and activists, including Greta Thunberg. The ship, which departed Sicily on June 2,