Blogging Without Pier

 

source: https://stephensemler.substack.com/p/three-times-more-food-aid-reached

EDIT: Let's put some context to this. 93,442 pallets of food sounds like a lot - but how much is it really? Well, the densest you can pack these things is probably MREs. Here's a prepper site link to buy a pallet of MREs. They can fit 720 meals on to one pallet. So 93,442 pallets is roughly 67 million MREs over a month - or roughly 1 MRE per Gazan per day. 1 MRE is 1,200 to 1,400 calories - woefully inadequate.  We're now at less than a third of that. And these are best case scenarios.

If you click through to Stephen Semler's Responsible Statecraft article, you'll see that April was actually a high watermark level of aid delivered, With March being pretty high as well (relatively speaking - even the highest amount of food delivered is less than half of normal requirements). The context of this arc is the ICJ issued orders for Israel to facilitate aid back in January, and Israel responded by cutting off aid (41,878 pallets in February) culminating in the murderous hunting of the WCK workers on Leap Day. Global outrage that Israel was also killing non-Palestinians forced a change resulting in 75,917 pallets in March and the 93K we see in April. So these ridiculously inadequate levels of aid delivery have been the case since at least January (68,914 pallets) which is the data shown in the RS article. Likely the starvation has been going on since October - and some may argue that it has been going since 2006. Anyways, now that Israel controls the Rafah crossing completely - we're at a new high score for starvation. Just in time for summer in the Middle East.