The Gaza Humanitarian Fund reports, as testimony to their success, that they have now distributed over 161 million meals since May. Sounds impressive.
However, the GHF doesn’t actually distribute any meals. Rather, they derive their figure by assuming that each 40-lb aid package that they provide for pickup is supposed to be enough to feed 5.5 people for 3.5 days—or the equivalent of 19.25 people for one day. The “161 million meals since May” translates into fewer than 12,900 boxes/day over the last 125 days (since GHF began), or fewer than 250,000 Gazans fed on a given day. That is 11-12% of the population, at best, get access to the boxes, and, by GHF’s figures, about 88-89% get nothing. Or, assuming that everyone gets some food at some point, every Gazan gets fed on average once out of every 8-9 days.
