New study shuts down ICC charges against Israel over Gaza starvation claims

A recently released survey is challenging the International Criminal Court's (ICC) probe of starvation claims against Israel and exposes the Hamas panic organization's relation successful controlling assistance distribution. 

Just past week, arsenic a effect of Hamas terrorists' refusal to widen the ceasefire woody and commencement releasing the 59 hostages inactive held successful Gaza, the Israeli authorities decided to halt each goods and supplies going into Gaza. 

Yet contempt howls of disapproval from U.N. alleviation main Tom Fletcher, who called the determination "alarming," the Trump medication has fixed its blessing to the move. 

Retired Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, a erstwhile IDF planetary spokesperson and present a elder chap astatine the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, dismissed claims of starvation, telling Fox News Digital that Hamas hoards supplies portion Israel ensures assistance enters. "Over 25,200 trucks arrived during the ceasefire – capable for 4 months. If there’s hunger, it’s due to the fact that of Hamas corruption, not a deficiency of food," helium said.

The survey published by Israeli nationalist wellness experts, based connected information from Israel’s Coordinator of Government Activities successful the Territories (COGAT), challenges these claims, showing nary grounds of famine oregon intentional deprivation.

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The marketplace successful Deir al-Balah successful the halfway of the Gaza Strip is teeming with vendors and shoppers.  (Majdi Fathi/TPS)

The study, named "Food supplied to Gaza during 7 months of the Hamas-Israel war," was led by nutrition and nationalist wellness experts Aron Troen and Ronit Endevelt, on with researchers from aggregate Israeli universities and the Ministry of Health. The survey analyzed nutrient shipments into Gaza from January to July 2024. 

Using planetary nutrient creation databases and the Sphere humanitarian standards, they tracked calorie intake, nutritional value, and humanitarian assistance efforts, providing an objective, data-driven investigation of nutrient supplies delivered to Gaza during the archetypal 7 months of the war.

The probe assessed nutrient shipments from planetary donors processed done COGAT. Each point was categorized based connected its vigor content, protein, abdominous and micronutrient composition. The full nutritional proviso per capita was past measured against planetary benchmarks to guarantee accuracy.

Hamas terrorists basal successful enactment arsenic Palestinians stitchery connected a thoroughfare to ticker the handover of 3 Israeli hostages to a Red Cross squad successful Deir el-Balah, cardinal Gaza, connected Feb. 8, 2025. (Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

"We didn't participate politics," said prof Ronit Endevelt. "We conscionable wanted to cognize if, from a nutritional perspective, the nutrient entering Gaza was sufficient. We double-checked our information aggregate times to debar exaggeration."

Between January and April 2024, 14,916 trucks carrying 227,854 tons of nutrient entered Gaza, averaging 124 nutrient trucks per day. The survey recovered that the regular per capita caloric proviso averaged 3,374 kcal, with 101 grams of macromolecule and 80.6 grams of abdominous – gathering oregon exceeding planetary humanitarian nutrient assistance standards.

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"In March 2024, the United Nations Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) warned of imminent famine successful Gaza. Within days, cautious method connection gave mode to media headlines and governmental statements claiming wide starvation was already underway," prof Troen told Fox News Digital. 

"One of the astir persistent falsehoods has been the assertion that earlier the war, 500 oregon much humanitarian trucks entered Gaza daily, and that this fig was indispensable to conscionable the population’s needs. In reality, the fig of nutrient trucks was astir oregon less than 100 per time earlier the war, and has since accrued substantially," helium continued. "Our survey aimed to code that spread by analyzing verified nutrient shipments. The numbers amusement that portion determination were variations, astatine nary constituent did the nutrient proviso driblet to starvation levels."

A poultry stall successful the marketplace successful Deir al Balah successful the halfway of the Gaza Strip. (Majdi Fathi/TPS-IL)

When asked specifically astir testimonies obtained by Fox News Digital from Gazans who reported struggling to find nutrient connected definite days, Endevelt acknowledged the survey did not way last organisation wrong Gaza. "We can’t accidental determination was nary hunger, but we tin corroborate capable nutrient entered," she said. "Most of the time, successful astir months, determination was capable nutrient available."

A cardinal uncovering of the survey is the favoritism betwixt nutrient proviso and distribution. "Hamas systematically weaponized nutrient distribution, utilizing it arsenic a instrumentality of control," said Endevelt. "Aid often didn’t scope those successful request due to the fact that Hamas seized supplies, sold them connected the achromatic market, oregon prioritized its ain fighters. Reports of famine are not owed to a deficiency of assistance but Hamas’ deliberate strategy of restricting entree to support powerfulness and profit."

Despite these findings, the ICC probe and planetary disapproval continued. "IPC reports, wide cited arsenic grounds against Israel, failed to notation Hamas’ relation successful manipulating aid," Troen said.

When asked by Fox News Digital whether the caller findings would beryllium considered successful its investigation, the ICC Office of the Prosecutor responded: "The ICC Office of the Prosecutor has a existent and ongoing probe successful narration to the Situation successful the State of Palestine. The Office’s investigations are built from a wide scope of sources. They tin encompass Article 15 communications, accusation from states, planetary partners, and civilian society, publically disposable sources of information, and the nonstop postulation of grounds by the Office, including interviews with witnesses.

Aid is delivered from Israel to Gaza. (IDF Spokesman's Unit)

"The Office is incapable to supply further accusation with respect to details of its investigative activities successful effect to your petition astatine this stage. Confidentiality is simply a important portion of our enactment and is indispensable to support the integrity of the investigations and to guarantee the information and information of victims, witnesses, and each those with whom the Office interacts."

The U.N. spokesperson referred Fox News Digital to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which requested much clip to respond. However, adjacent aft the hold was granted, nary effect was provided.

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Publishing the survey posed challenges. "Given the anti-Israel bias successful parts of the technological community, we opted to taxable to the Israeli Journal of Health Policy Research, a peer-reviewed diary nether Springer Nature," Troen said. "We wanted the information disposable rapidly to amended humanitarian efforts. However, the governmental clime made the reappraisal process unusually intense."

"This was 1 of the astir rigorously reviewed studies I’ve ever worked on," Endevelt added. "We had 5 reviewers, acold much than usual, and months of back-and-forth revisions to guarantee implicit accuracy."

The probe team, including experts from Hebrew University, Ben-Gurion University, Tel Aviv University and Haifa University, conducted the survey with a committedness to technological rigor. The paper, present wide cited, underscores the value of transparent information successful evaluating humanitarian crises.

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"One happening is clear: fixed the magnitude of nutrient entering Gaza and ongoing reports of hunger, organisation indispensable beryllium improved," Troen concluded. "Effective practice betwixt U.N. agencies, COGAT, and Palestinian civilian society, without Hamas’ interference, is important to ensuring assistance reaches those who request it most."