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Oct. 1—The Gaza Humanitarian Fund reports, as testimony to their success, that they have now distributed over 161 million meals since May. But the agency, whose security working with the Israel Defense Forces have killed thousands of starving Gazans for no known reason in and around their distribution sites, may not be around much longer—if the Trump Peace Plan is implemented.

The reality is that GHF, which was backed by the Israeli and U.S. governments, doesn’t actually distribute any meals. Rather, they derive their figure in their most recent status report 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!

The GHF may be overstating their case in bragging about the 161 million meals. However, they don’t hold a candle to the bizarre claim by the Butcher of Gaza, the prime minister of Israel at the UN last week. Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu asserted that Israel has provided 3,000 calories/day in food to every Gazan throughout the last two years. While offering no proof at all to support this lie.

As for the GHF, there is no mention of its continuing operation in the Trump Peace Plan, which will instead entrust competent and reputable humanitarian organizations linked to the UN and Red Crescent to handle this task.