A boat laden with food for Palestinians in the devastated Gaza Strip was “ready” to set sail from Cyprus, an NGO said, as Israel continued to launch deadly strikes on civilian areas and fighting raged between Israeli troops and Hamas ahead of Ramadan. The sea route aims to counter aid access restrictions which Israel has imposed. More than five months into a war which has killed over 30,000 people and reduced districts and cities to rubble, many of Gaza’s 2.4 million people are starving to death. Hopes were fading fast for a pause in the fighting before Ramadan, which began on Sunday for many …