[The] U.N. World Food Programme estimates that at least 300 trucks of food are needed every day to meet the basic needs of the population. During the first half of March, an average of 159 trucks a day have entered Gaza, representing 40% of the minimum amount required, according to U.N. data. Before the Israeli offensive, an average of 500 trucks entered every working day, including fuel trucks.
You can start comparing this to the Siege of Leningrad during the Second World War
I remember reading about it and at one point they started measuring the famine in the city by the amount of calories they could provide with the available food.
It started off at 2,000 calories per day and then over time dwindled down to 500 calories a day … instead of saying people were starving, they just said they weren’t getting enough calories to survive. (as a modern measure, it’s estimated that a good healthy amount of calories per day is 2,500)
Another sign of the amount of desperation that occurred was the number of any animal life in the city … horses disappeared, as well as dogs, cats, mice and rats. The city became devoid of all life.
You’d think humanity would have learned from that terrible lesson from the recent past … we’re recreating it again now and the world is allowing it all to happen. This isn’t an Israeli problem any more … it’s a global problem where we selectively ignore humanity to our fellow humans and create the conditions of indecency and a disregard for life whenever we feel like.
We haven’t evolved … we just learned to create better window dressing to show how terrible we still are.
Israel was tightly controlling the amount of calories per capita that entered the strip long before Oct 7 even happened. Their justification was that any excess would provide Palestinians with a stockpile that would make any future sieges less effective. They weren’t even allowed to collect rainwater.
Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip