Jonathan Cook schrieb 2012 zu diesem Fall einen Text:
"Israel’s formula for a starvation diet"
https://www.jonathan-cook.net/2012-10-24/israels-formula-for-a-starvation-diet/
Daraus einige Stellen:
(Abgesehe davon, dass das alles an sich schon menschenverachtend war. Schließlich hatte die IDF überhaupt erst mit ihrer hochillegalen Blockade die Ernährungskrise künstlich herbeigeführt, um dann durch verleumderische Verdrehung der Tatsachen, zusätzlich eine "Kaloriengrenze" den Opfern der Blockade aufzuerlegen):
-"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 (...) entered Gaza daily."
-"To achieve this large reduction, officials deducted trucks based (...) on an over-generous assessment of how much food could be grown locally."
-"Gisha, the organisation that fought for the document’s publication, observes that Israeli officials ignored the fact that the blockade had severely impaired Gaza’s farming industry, with a shortage of seeds and chickens that had led to a dramatic drop in food output."
-"UN staff too have noted that Israel failed to factor in the large quantity of food from each day’s supply of 67 trucks that never actually reached Gaza. (...) Many items spoiled as they lay in the sun."
-"And on top of this (...) trucks carrying milk, fruit and vegetables were greatly reduced, sometimes by as much as a half."
-"Robert Turner, director of the UN refugee agency’s operations in the Gaza Strip, has observed: “The facts on the ground in Gaza demonstrate that food imports consistently fell below the red lines.”
-"There can be no doubt that the diet devised for Gaza (...) was intended as a form of collective punishment (...) “economic warfare” that would generate a political crisis, leading to a popular uprising against Hamas."