Excellent article "The Mathematics of Starvation: Why Aid Can't Fix the Lethal Shortage of Food in Gaza" [View all]

This is an excellent article showing some of the many inaquacies of food aid as currently provided to Israel. It also addressed medical and physiological aspects of what is needed.

I'm a medical professional and have been horrified at the current version of "aid" from that standpoint alone. (leaving aside political, practiczl, etc etc aspects).

The best part of the article is reached through the Archive link at the end.

from Haaretz:

The Mathematics of Starvation: Why Aid Can't Fix the Lethal Shortage of Food in Gaza July 23, 2025

To an uncritical eye, the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation – backed by Israel and the U.S. – looks like a dizzying success story. After it boasted on Monday that it has already distributed more than 85 million meals and that the day's distribution passed without incident, one might have thought all the earlier problems and the negative reports were just the project's birth pangs.

But a few other variables need to be factored into this equation of success. First and foremost, the equation lacks context and ignores the broader picture. If roughly 2.1 million people live in the Gaza Strip today, it's preferable for them to eat three meals a day, and GHF had been in operation for 56 days as of Monday, how many meals should it have distributed? A simple calculation produces the answer – 353 million.
Thus even if, by some miracle, Gazans had managed to evenly divide the food the organization handed out among themselves, then cook it and extract every last calorie and nutrient it contained, this would still be only a tiny fraction of the food they need to survive. And this gap reveals only the tip of the iceberg of the mathematics of starvation.

There's no shortage of other indications. Since this weekend, hunger in Gaza has escalated further. Hospitals, humanitarian organizations, journalists and Gaza residents are all reporting severe shortages of food even in comparison to previous months.

https://archive.is/4jbAr