Summary
A scholar whose wartime food-availability assessment, giving local agriculture as 12 percent of Gaza’s caloric intake, is adopted in Debunking the Genocide Allegations (Debunking the Genocide Allegations: A Reexamination of the Israel-Hamas War from October 7, 2023 to June 1, 2025, PDF p.44).
Details
- Checchi’s assessment that local agriculture supplied 12% of the caloric intake in Gaza before the fighting is viewed by the authors as credible, if not an overestimate; they record that the percentage is based on OXFAM data they could not track down and that Checchi could not provide a more exact source to date (PDF p.44, note 77).
- Checchi is thanked among those who assisted the research (PDF p.21).
- Checchi et al.’s Wartime Food Availability in the Gaza Strip, October 2023 to August 2024 is the study the work’s northern-Gaza analysis is based on, despite four alleged major factual flaws: assuming 150-180 pre-war food trucks daily (approximately double the real figure), excluding aid not recorded by UNRWA including private-sector trucks, assuming a 2,800-calorie consumption level, and assuming Egyptian Red Crescent pallet weights (653 kg) for UNRWA pallets (about 1.2 tons), underestimating food entering Gaza by an amount the authors correct upward by approximately 21% for the north (PDF p.53-54).
- On Checchi et al.’s own calculations as the work presents them, southern and central Gaza showed no food shortages except three weeks from February 17 to March 9 and one week from March 23 to 30, 2024, with supply exceeding 2,100 calories per person per day, while northern Gaza fell to about 1,000 calories per person over eight weeks, January 9 to March 6, 2024 (PDF p.54).
Related pages
Debunking the Genocide Allegations: A Reexamination of the Israel-Hamas War from October 7, 2023 to June 1, 2025, Gaza