Summary
The Palestinian statistics bureau (PCBS, printed CBS at PDF p.9) whose expenditure tables and agricultural census underlie figures contested 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.43-45).
Details
- The Amnesty 44 percent local-production figure is traced to a PCBS December 2023 publication whose supply-and-use analysis concerns household expenditures, not caloric or metric consumption (PDF p.45).
- The work relies on the PCBS agriculture census for 2010-2011 for Gaza production and land figures, and notes the 2021 census gave no metric ton production data (PDF p.43-44); its population estimate of 2.16 million is used for the 82-trucks calculation (PDF p.46).
- Broader PCBS data are cited against UNRWA-sponsored claims of stagnant infant mortality (PDF p.42).
Related pages
Debunking the Genocide Allegations: A Reexamination of the Israel-Hamas War from October 7, 2023 to June 1, 2025, Amnesty International, Gaza