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Jilly_in_VA

(12,777 posts) Thu Jul 31, 2025, 03:05 PM Jul 31

The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza

The mathematics of famine are simple in Gaza. Palestinians cannot leave, war has ended farming and Israel has banned fishing, so practically every calorie its population eats must be brought in from outside.

Israel knows how much food is needed. It has been calibrating hunger in Gaza for decades, initially calculating shipments to exert pressure while avoiding starvation.

“The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger,” a senior adviser to the then prime minister, Ehud Olmert, said in 2006. An Israeli court ordered the release of documents showing the details of those macabre sums two years later.

Cogat, the Israeli agency that still controls aid shipments to Gaza, calculated then that Palestinians needed an average minimum 2,279 calories per person per day, which could be provided through 1.836kg of food.

Today, humanitarian organisations are asking for an even smaller minimum ration: 62,000 metric tonnes of dry and canned food to meet basic needs for 2.1 million people each month, or around 1kg of food per person per day.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/31/the-mathematics-of-starvation-how-israel-caused-a-famine-in-gaza

Except that they ARE dying of hunger---especially children and the elderly. THIS is how you make more terrorists, Israel Haven't you learned that YET?

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The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza (Original Post) Jilly_in_VA Jul 31 OP

Why are there videos showing Gazans dumping out flour? Mosby Jul 31 #1

Jose Andres: The World Cannot Stand By With Gaza on the Brink of Famine cliffside Jul 31 #2

Mosby

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1. Why are there videos showing Gazans dumping out flour?

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Thu Jul 31, 2025, 03:17 PM

Jul 31

Because they want the bags.

Any Idea?

cliffside

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2. Jose Andres: The World Cannot Stand By With Gaza on the Brink of Famine

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Thu Jul 31, 2025, 09:47 PM

Jul 31

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has some ideas in this article.

They do not need sacks of flour dropped on them or to walk long distances to retrieve them, then find clean water, fuel to make something!

These small measures mean almost nothing.

Full article

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/opinion/gaza-starvation-famine-israel.html?unlocked_article_code=1.a08.7_BL.VhIuD3yE7ZBO&smid=url-share

"First, we urgently need to open humanitarian corridors accessible to all aid groups operating in Gaza, to ensure that food, water and medicine can arrive safely and at scale.

Second, we need to substantially increase production of hot meals. Unlike bulk food supplies, hot meals have little resale value for organized gangs.

Third, we need to feed people where they are. We must deliver meals to where the Palestinian people are sheltering, rather than expect them to travel to a few distribution points, where violence often breaks out.

Fourth, we want to prepare one million meals a day, not tens of thousands. We estimate this would require five large cooking facilities in safe zones, where bulk food supplies can be delivered, prepared and distributed without risk of violence. These large kitchens would also supply hundreds of smaller community kitchens at the neighborhood level throughout Gaza, empowering communities as essential partners..."

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