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israelfacts: Israel calculated the number of calories Palestinians would need to avoid malnutrition under its blockade of the Gaza Strip, according to a study the government was forced to release “The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.” — Dov Weisglass, an adviser to Ehud Olmert, the then Israeli Prime Minister Photograph: A boy in south Gaza at the time the UN ran out of Palestinian food supplies in 2008 after Israel blocked deliveries. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters Read also: UN experts: Israel’s blockade of Gaza is illegal 80% of Palestinians in Gaza reliant on food aid Gaza ‘will not be liveable by 2020’ - UN report Figures on Palestinian food security require closer look Turkey will never forget 9 Turks killed by Israeli troops on aid flotilla

israelfacts:

Israel calculated the number of calories Palestinians would need to avoid malnutrition under its blockade of the Gaza Strip, according to a study the government was forced to release

“The idea is to put the Palestinians on a diet, but not to make them die of hunger.”

— Dov Weisglass, an adviser to Ehud Olmert, the then Israeli Prime Minister

Photograph: A boy in south Gaza at the time the UN ran out of Palestinian food supplies in 2008 after Israel blocked deliveries. Ibraheem Abu Mustafa/Reuters

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∞  October 29, 2012 at 08:00pm
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