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Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/06/30/no-israel-is-not-starving-the-people-of-gaza/
No, Israel Is Not Starving the People of Gaza
(Telegraph-UK) Jake Wallis Simons - According to the UN, only 3% of the residents of Rafah, in Gaza, were poorly fed in May. In Khan Yunis and Deir al Balah, that figure was 6%. In 2022, 14% of the population in Gaza faced hunger, according to the World Food Program. So it appears that provisions are better now than before the war. Not that you'd know it from the reporting. I recently spoke to a friend in Gaza living in a tent in Deir al-Balah. He told me, "Food is available, everything is available. Meat, chicken, vegetables. It is not aid. It is coming from Israel, brought in by private people through the Kerem Shalom crossing and sold to us as a business. The prices are much better, just a little bit higher than before the war." The writer is the editor of the Jewish Chronicle-UK.