A tipping point arrives in Gaza, when there's nowhere else to go

A child reacts as people salvage belongings amid the rubble of a damaged building following strikes on Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Picture: Mohammed Abed/AFP via Getty Images

It is almost two weeks since the tentative ceasefire between Israel and Hamas ended, and with every passing day Israel's Defence Forces has intensified its campaign of air and ground assault on Gaza with devastating and dehumanising effect. 

In the last 48 hours, Palestinians have suffered the most brutal days of violence in the south, the very area the IDF urged besieged Gazans to flee to in order to be spared their unrelenting campaign of indiscriminate bombing in the north.