The UN and major aid groups have refused to cooperate with the foundation over concerns it was designed to cater to Israeli military objectives

Israeli gunfire and airstrikes killed at least 120 Palestinians in Gaza yesterday, many of them near an aid site operated by the US- and Israeli-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in the centre of the enclave, local health officials said.

Of the 12 activists on board the Madleen, which was carrying food and supplies for Gaza, four including Thunberg agreed to be deported immediately, while all of them have been banned from Israel for 100 years, the rights group that legally represents some of them said in a statement

The Al-Amal Hospital in Gaza, one of the few still operating in the Palestinian territory, is now "virtually out of service"

Israeli forces intercepted the boat in international waters on Monday and towed it to the port of Ashdod

The Madleen vessel was carrying humanitarian aid and a crew of solidarity activists

The British-flagged yacht Madleen, which is operated by the pro-Palestinian Freedom Flotilla Coalition (FFC), was aiming to deliver a symbolic amount of aid to Gaza later on Monday and raise international awareness of the humanitarian crisis there

The organisers of the Madleen's voyage said Saturday they had reached Egyptian waters and were nearing Gaza, where the war between Israel and Hamas has entered its 21st month

Troops had fired "warning shots" at individuals it said were "advancing in a way that endangered the troops"

The Israeli military on Saturday called for Gazans to evacuate from neighbourhoods in the north of the Gaza Strip, where it said rockets had been fired from.

There are 12 activists on board, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg

Gaza's civil defence agency said Israeli strikes killed at least 10 people in the battered Palestinian territory on Thursday

The US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation did not distribute any aid yesterday as it presses Israel to boost civilian safety beyond the perimeter of its distribution sites, a day after dozens of Palestinians seeking aid were killed.

Israel's military said it was ready to "protect" the country's maritime space on Tuesday, after a boat organised by an international activist coalition set sail for Gaza aiming to deliver aid.

At least 27 Palestinians were killed and dozens wounded by Israeli fire near a food distribution site in the southern Gaza Strip yesterday, local health authorities said, in the third day of chaos and bloodshed to affect the aid operation.

Gaza rescuers said Israeli gunfire killed at least 31 Palestinians near a US-backed aid distribution site yesterday, shortly after Washington rejected Hamas’s response to a ceasefire proposal as “totally unacceptable”.

Hamas said its response was positive while emphasising the need for a permanent ceasefire

Israeli strikes killed at least 60 people in Gaza yesterday as Tel Aviv warned of annihilating Hamas if it does not accept a hostage deal in Gaza.

"Gaza is the hungriest place on Earth," said a spokesman for the UN humanitarian agency OCHA

The White House said on Thursday that Israel has agreed to the US ceasefire proposal