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If that solved the problem I would endorse it. I don't see how it does or how you do it.

How do you get food to all of Gaza while there is raging fighting? The biggest problem is in Gaza city where there is intense fighting. The southern areas have a lot more food. How do we flood Gaza city with food? Ceasefire? We had one. Then what?

Let's plan this in more detail. Who is going to distribute the food in Gaza? Who in Gaza has weapons and control? How is the hostage problem resolved? How do we get Hamas to not rule over Gaza any more?



> How do you get food to all of Gaza while there is raging fighting?

Berlin airdrop and pile it up at the borders from trucks for starters.

> southern areas have a lot more food

But not enough. Start there. Also, if you make food plentiful enough in the south, it will find its way north. The point, again, isn't just to starve the famine. It's also to reduce the value of food as a recruiting tool.

> How is the hostage problem resolved? How do we get Hamas to not rule over Gaza any more?

Not relevant to not starving people!


Israel has piled it up on the border many times during the conflict.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/middle-east/gaza-food-starvati...

https://www.fdd.org/analysis/2025/07/24/un-refuses-to-cooper...

It's true that it's objectively hard to get the food from the border into e.g. Gaza city while a war is raging on. Israel has asked all civilians to evict Gaza city (basically for the entire duration of the war). Many people returned to Gaza city during the last ceasefire despite no green light from Israel. There is more food in the south and it's easier to get food into there.

There is an effort to get even more food into the south. For example World Central Kitchen is scaling up their operations there right now (with Israel's support). The GHF effort was also mostly focused on the south.

Air drops can't move in enough food. They're also dangerous.


> There is more food in the south and it's easier to get food into there

Yet there are still credible claims of famine in the south.

> Air drops can't move in enough food

This is nonsense. West Berlin had a civilian population of about 2.5mm [1]. Gaza is smaller. Our planes are better. We've solved this problem, but harder, before.

> They're also dangerous

What's the threat model? Initially, you'd literally air drop--no landings. Gaza isn't fielding air-defence systems.

Once you're reduced the desperation, you'd secure a couple airfields and make unsupervised drops. (This is cheaper.) You wouldn't even bother handling distribution. Again, the point is the flood the zone with so much food that it starts to become sort of worthless.

[1] https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/bomb-bl...


Feeding people is a good of its own. "We have to blockade food because distribution is logistically challenging" is ridiculous.




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