Israel's Energy Minister Eli Cohen has ordered an immediate halt to electricity supply to Gaza, threatening the functioning of the enclave's desalination plants amid an ongoing aid shortage in the holy month of Ramadan.

This announcement comes more than a week after Israel cut off all supplies of goods to the territory to over two million people after reneging on the ceasefire deal that ended the fifteen-month-long Gaza war.

Nearly fifty thousand Palestinians have been martyred and vast swathes of Gaza have been turned into rubble after non-stop Israeli bombardment.