Famine in Gaza is hardening rhetoric in Israel

A new poll by Israel's left leaning newspaper Haaretz found that 82% of Israeli Jews favour expulsion of all Palestinians from Gaza 

Palestinians carry boxes containing food and humanitarian aid packages delivered by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip, on May 27. On Friday last, the UN said Gaza is the 'hungriest place on Earth'. Photo: AP/Abdel Kareem Hana

For three days in a row last week, some two dozen Palestinians were shot dead by Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) in or near the Israeli and American-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) site in Rafah in southern Gaza.

There are, however, disputes about the facts of what happened in the early days of last week. The Hamas-run Gaza Health Ministry reported that 20 to 30 people were killed with more than 100 injured, each day for those three days at or close to the Rafah aid site.