Israeli forces in the eastern Mediterranean on Tuesday intercepted all remaining vessels from an activist flotilla attempting to challenge Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza, the latest effort to highlight the grim conditions for nearly 2 million Palestinians with severe shortages of housing, food and medicine.

The Israeli military began intercepting several boats that are part of a flotilla attempting to break the Gaza blockade.

Israeli forces have begun intercepting the Global Sumud Flotilla near Cyprus after it left Turkey last week, as the Foreign Ministry accuses organizers of staging a Hamas-serving…