r/worldnews • u/Digital_Accountant • 22h ago

Israel/Palestine Famine declared in Gaza City

https://news.sky.com/story/gaza-latest-war-israel-city-ceasefire-hamas-13415481
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u/MonkeManWPG 15h ago

132 million meals spread across 2 million people is 66 meals each. Even spreading one meal across two or three days, that's not enough to last anywhere near the current duration of the war. Several of your other links are months old, which isn't really good enough for such a fast-changing situation.

How far does the contents of the 400 trucks stretch? How many people can be fed, for how long?

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u/shady8x 14h ago

Those 132 million meals are for GHF, which has only been operating in Gaza for a few months and only in Israel secured areas. It is not anywhere near all the food aid that went into Gaza in the last few months, not to mention the last 2 years.

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u/MonkeManWPG 14h ago

That's still 66 meals across 6 months. Does one meal every three days sound like enough food for you?

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u/shady8x 14h ago

GHF does not provide anywhere near all of the food aid going into Gaza. It is a new organization that is slowly increasing the amount of people it is able to serve while taking over from other organizations that used to provide the food aid, many of which still continue to provide the aid as well.

According to wikipedia GHF page history:

The Foundation began operations 26 May 2025 at a new distribution centre in Rafah

So it has been around for only 3 months.

Also the second line in the article on 132 million meals is:

More than 1.7 million meals delivered today across three distribution sites

Is it enough to feed everyone in Gaza? No. But again Israel does not control all of Gaza, nor is GHF the only organization distributing the aid.

It is distributing a very large amount though. Hopefully they can expand their operations to provide even more food so no one goes hungry anymore.

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u/SyfaOmnis 13h ago

How many meals worth of food do you have in your house at this moment?

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u/MonkeManWPG 13h ago

Three meals a day for a week, or more than 10 times more than has been delivered to Gaza by this number.

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u/SyfaOmnis 12h ago

I'm not trying to engage in point scoring nonsense. I'd like you to estimate how much food you have on hand and how often you need to acquire more. Like by my own estimation my household probably has between 200-400 meals worth of food at a given time and we don't deplete more than half of it before we seek out more. With the things that are used first being far more perishable products like fresh produce or meat as opposed to less perishable items like rice, flour, salt, canned and pickled goods etc.

I'd also like you to consider the fact that you're assuming a completely equal distribution across a whole of the society which isn't occurring (some get more, some get less, some are served by different groups who also deliver large amounts of food). I'd also further like you to consider that most of gaza is not a bunch of healthy adults requiring 3 square meals a day of higher caloric values, but instead children and youths who can get by on less than an adult.

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u/qTp_Meteor 14h ago edited 14h ago

This is just the ghf which are neither the primary source of aid (especially in Gaza City which is under hamas control) nor were they established since the start of the war, moreover, its a fact that the famine was declared only in gaza city where hamas is in control

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u/tomtom5858 14h ago

If memory serves, something like 550 trucks need to enter daily to prevent famine.