Gaza is receiving roughly the same amount of food every day as it did in 2022 ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Thursday, June 05, 2025

Gaza is receiving roughly the same amount of food every day as it did in 2022

Last week, as the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation was ramping up, a UN representative denounced it, saying that the amount of food coming into Gaza was "less than a drop in the ocean" of what was needed.

Which means it was worse than the "drop in the ocean" that UN official said on May 19.

And much, much worse than a "drop in the bucket."

So let's look at some facts.

The UN routinely cites 500-600 trucks a day into Gaza before the war as a baseline. But most of those trucks were carrying construction materials and other non-food items.

In August 2023, a record number of trucks entered Gaza - over 12,000. Gaza was receiving more items than at any time since Hamas took over the territory. Hamas decided to attack Israel when things were the best they had ever been since at least 2005. See the UN chart for yourself:

In that August, according to the UN, 22% of the imports were food items. That comes out to 86 trucks a day of food.

At that time, about 75% of Gaza's food came from imports and about 25% from local farms and fishing. That would mean that Gaza, in August 2023, was surviving quite well with the equivalent of 114 truckloads of food a day.

According to COGAT, today, 88 truckloads of food entered Gaza. On Tuesday the number was 157. Last week the average was about 82 trucks a day.

So while the average over the past couple of weeks is not quite as high as it was in August 2023, it is about the same as it was in 2022, when the number was about 86 trucks of food a day (8870*29% of trucks with food/30 day months). Adding 33% for domestic food production, it would be the equivalent of about 115 trucks a day that Gazans consumed the year before the war.

Note that the number of food trucks were roughly equivalent in August 2023 and the entire 2022, meaning that about 86 trucks a day of imports is what Gaza needs, plus making up the shortfall from losing domestic food production.

Of course, before the war, Gaza had well stocked supermarkets and restaurants, so while the amount entering Gaza is a little less than consumption was before the war, we are not quite comparing apples to apples.

If Gaza is getting 75% of the food it used to consume before the war, nobody is starving and the "drop in the ocean" meme is a blatant lie.