by admin
24. June 2010 05:19

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Is Gaza Starving?
The international community recently claimed the Israeli government was not supplying the Gazan population with aid.
The diagrams above show that Israel supplies Gaza with so much food that if aid were distributed equally there would be enough for each Gazan to receive 5547% more than the average Bangladeshi.
And while Gaza receives more aid than the other nation, they actually top the rich list of these 10 nations with a GDP per Capita of $2,900.
Calculations
1 loaf of bread is equivalent to 675g of food aid
All food aid statistics were collected from the UN World Food Programme
All population estimates were from CIA World Factbook
All GDP per capita estimates were from CIA World Factbook - 2008
Update
In the first quarter of 2010 Israel allowed 48,000 tons of food aid into Gaza, lifting the monthly average from 12,000 to 16,000 tons of aid.
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/About+the+Ministry/Behind+the+Headlines/Israeli_humanitarian_lifeline_Gaza_25-May-2010.htm
by admin
18. June 2010 06:45
by admin
14. June 2010 22:36
This graph documents the impact of the Gaza blockade on Qassam attacks against Israel. 2 3
It does not include long range Katyusha missiles, thousands of mortar shells or rockets manufactured by other terror groups within the Gaza1

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Time Line
- In 2001 Hamas militants invented the Qassam rocket.
- Between 2001 and 2002 Hamas fired 39 of these rockets into Israel.
- In 2006 Hamas were elected into cabinet and Qassam attacks increased by 426%
- In 2007 Israel imposed a blockade on the Gaza Strip. Hamas reacted by firing nearly 2,000 rockets into Israel the following year.
- Between December 2008 and January 2009 Israel executed Operation Cast Lead, a military incursion into the Gaza Strip. Hamas miscalculated the impact that the blockade on their ability to rearm and mistakenly used up the last of their Qassams reserves.
- After Operation Cast Lead only 106 rockets were fired into Israel in 2009; the lowest levels since 2003.
- The blockade on Gaza had been an incredible Israeli security success, since then there has been a considerable increase in militant groups attempting to breach the blockade and rearm Hamas.
References
1 Rockets employed by other terror groups:
- Islamic Jihad - Al-Quds rocket
- Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades - Al-Aqsa and Yasser rockets
- Popular Resistance Committees - Nasser rockets
- PFLP - Samoud rocket
2 2003-2008 http://qassamcount.com/
3 2009 http://www.jpost.com/Home/Article.aspx?id=164730