Israel全 Formula For A Starvation Diet [View all]
By Jonathan Cook
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Excerpts: "But a rather different picture emerges as one reads the small print. While the health ministry determined that Gazans needed daily an average of 2,279 calories each to avoid malnutrition requiring 170 trucks a day military officials then found a host of pretexts to whittle down the trucks to a fraction of the original figure.
The reality was that, in this period, an average of only 67 trucks much less than half of the minimum requirement entered Gaza daily. This compared to more than 400 trucks before the blockade began.
To achieve this large reduction, officials deducted trucks based both on an over-generous assessment of how much food could be grown locally and on differences in the culture and experience of food consumption in Gaza, a rationale never explained.
Gisha, the organisation that fought for the documents publication, observes that Israeli officials ignored the fact that the blockade had severely impaired Gazas farming industry, with a shortage of seeds and chickens that had led to a dramatic drop in food output."
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