With hope fading that a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas can be salvaged to release hostages and deliver desperately needed humanitarian aid into Gaza, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government launched his long-promised offensive in the city of Rafah on May 7. Gaza’s southernmost city is crowded with over 1 million desperate Palestinian refugees who fled there, seeking safety from indiscriminate Israeli bomb and missile attacks.

As Israeli tanks seized control of the Palestinian side of the Rafah crossing, aid agency officials in the territory said the flow of humanitarian assistance through the Rafah crossing had been entirely halted. There are 2.3 million Gaza residents who face starvation, with severe shortages of potable water, basic sanitation and little or no access to healthcare. The United Nations World Food Program says northern Gaza has now entered a stage of “full-blown famine.”

Depending on their news sources, U.S. news consumers may or may not fully grasp the desperate reality of Palestinians who must fight every day to survive Israel’s 7-monthlong war that has thus far killed more than 34,000, mostly women and children. Between The Lines’ Scott Harris spoke with Ryan Grim, The Intercept’s D.C. bureau chief, who examines a recent survey which reveals how biased cable news coverage of Israel’s Gaza war skews American public opinion.