DaysofPal- A detailed report released by the Gaza Government Media Office reported that about half of Gaza’s 2.4 million residents are not receiving any daily meal, and the other half subsist on just one meal per day, figures that the office says are supported by the Israeli government’s own published data.
The analysis was issued in response to a statement by the Israeli military’s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (“COGAT”), who claimed that international organizations are distributing more than a million meals daily in Gaza.
Gaza officials argue this statement is a de facto admission of an ongoing policy of starvation.
According to the analysis, COGAT’s own figures cite the delivery of 1.4 million meals per day to Gaza. When distributed across the population of 2.4 million, over 1 million of whom are children, only 58% of the population is covered, meaning that 42% (about 1 million people) do not receive any meal daily.
Even for those receiving one meal, the office notes this is “below the minimum required for human nutrition.”
The statement highlights that COGAT did not specify meal weight, but humanitarian guidelines typically set the minimum meal weight at 300–500 grams.
Even using a 400-gram average, the total food delivered (560 metric tons per day) covers less than a quarter of Gaza’s daily nutritional requirements, which the office estimates at 2,400–2,600 metric tons for the entire population.
The analysis also addressed COGAT’s claim that 3.5 million loaves of bread are distributed daily, calculating this to be just 1.46 small loaves per person per day, a figure the office says is “insufficient for normal life, especially for children.”
Regarding food parcels, COGAT reported 270,000 distributed in a month, said to serve 1.3 million people.
The analysis points out that, given the average household size, this means each family receives only one parcel per month, far below what is needed for monthly survival.
The Gaza Government Media Office concluded that COGAT’s data “constitutes an explicit admission of starving one million people daily,” and accused Israeli occupation of failing to comply with ceasefire and humanitarian protocols by restricting aid entry and strictly rationing food.
Independent humanitarian reports partly corroborate the severe shortfall: Though food aid deliveries and market access improved slightly after the ceasefire in October, access remains “far below pre-conflict levels,” with many families averaging just one meal a day and aid covering only a fraction of the population’s needs.
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