Wednesday, July 10, 2024

But a lot of media still tell us "Starvation!!", and no correction

or apology for the BS they got from Hamas.
Indeed, what may come as a complete surprise is that according to the United Nations only 3 per cent of the residents of Rafah were poorly fed in May. In Khan Yunis and the central town of Deir al Balah, that figure stood at 6 per cent. The biggest challenges were faced by those who had failed to evacuate from the north at the start of the campaign; there, 13 per cent were found to be hungry. Overall, the overwhelming majority of Gazans had‘acceptable’ quantities of food.

In particular, in discussing food trucks and other methods of aid entering the area, the IPC had, for whatever reason, neglected to include in their original calculations commercial and/or privately contracted deliveries and World Food Program deliveries to bakeries in northern Gaza.

Before the conflict, in 2022, despite billions of dollars of aid money being poured into the Gaza Strip, 14 per cent of the population faced hunger. The reality would appear to be that they are better provisioned now than when Hamas was in charge.

Our media: overall you can trust them to be full of crap.

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