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Source: https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/02/12/study-finds-hamas-starved-hostages-despite-ample-gaza-aid/
Hamas Starved Israeli Hostages Despite Ample Gaza Aid
(Israel Hayom) Maytal Yasur Beit-Or - An Israeli study analyzing food quantities entering Gaza as humanitarian aid in January-July 2024 found that sufficient amounts of diverse food with adequate caloric content were delivered. This underscores that Gaza had no food shortage, highlighting that hostages are being deliberately starved. 478,229 tons of food were transferred to Gaza, enabling each Gaza resident to receive 3,000 calories per day. Prof. Ronit Endevelt, former director of the Israel Ministry of Health's Nutrition Department, who co-authored the study, noted, "if the population didn't receive food, it's because distribution wasn't equitable by those controlling the territory, meaning Hamas. Claims echoing worldwide about insufficient food in Gaza are incorrect." "Hamas had the ability to adequately feed the hostages yet consciously chose to starve them. This is beyond other shocking physical and mental torture, such as various restraints, lack of exposure to sunlight and daylight, inability to move - causing life-threatening malnutrition, damage to skeletal systems, immune system, hormonal system, and internal organs to the point of death risk."