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2. Jose Andres: The World Cannot Stand By With Gaza on the Brink of Famine
Thu Jul 31, 2025, 09:47 PM
Jul 31

Last edited Thu Jul 31, 2025, 10:17 PM - Edit history (1)

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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