What is inside the GHF Food Fund that is distributed in Gaza

More than two million Palestinians in Gaza face the hunger crisis, with death from malnutrition per day, according to the United Nations.

The Gaza Humanitarian Corporation (GHF), a group supported by Israel and the United States, has been working in Gaza since late May. She says she distributed 91 million meals, primarily in the form of food boxes.

Although the BBC has not been able to see these funds directly since Israel prevented international journalists from entering Gaza, the BBC has examined the verification of pictures and other information that GHF shares and spoke to help experts who raised concerns about their nutritional value.

Online videos were distributed from the Palestinians who display the contents of the boxes, but GHF only participated in their photos this week.

Two photos were published on X mostly dried food elements that require water and fuel for cooking, including pasta, chickpeas, lentils and wheat flour. It also included cooking oil, salt, flour or sesame paste.

GHF said these boxes also contain some ready-to-eat foods, such as Halva-Babs, a famous snack made of Tahini or Sesame and sugar.

The organization presented us with a schedule of what it describes as a “standard” list of elements in each box, with calories collapsed.

The typical box contains 42,500 calories, and that “each box nourishes 5.5 people for 3.5 days.” According to the table.

It sometimes includes alternative elements such as tea, biscuits and chocolate, as it offers potatoes and onions, but they are not included in food numbers.

An international professor to develop aid from London Economics has analyzed the GHF list to BBC, and said that although he could provide adequate calories needed to survive, it was “dangerous weaknesses”.

Professor Stewart Gordon said: “On its essence, this basket provides a complete stomach but an empty diet,” said Professor Stewart Gordon. “The biggest defect is what is missing … this is (it) the” first aid “basket, designed to stop the effect of bleeding that is acute hunger.”

He said, “Following a diet like this over weeks will lead to” hidden hunger “, which increases the risk of diseases such as anemia and Karbaria.

Dr. Andrew Cell, associate professor of international nutrition at the University of London University, said that food boxes were incomplete in calcium, iron, zinc, vitamins C, D, B12 and K. He added that there was also a lack of food to suit young children.

“The prolonged consumption of these foods, even if it is available in sufficient quantities, will lead to a set of serious shortcomings and health problems,” he said.

He added that unlike GHF, agencies like the United Nations usually distribute food in large quantities and complement it with the targeted nutrition of weak groups. the The World Food Program (WFP) said It also aims to provide emergency supplies for young children and pregnant women.

GHF did not respond to BBC questions to check the BBC about the advice it received about the nutritional contents of its aid boxes or whether it is planning to address the concerns raised by experts.

For those who managed to get a box, they still need water and fuel to cook dried goods, though The water crisis And a severe fuel shortage faces Gaza.

The United Nations Humanitarian Office (OCA) warned this week that the Gaza water crisis is deteriorating quickly. She also warned that families had to resort to unhealthy and unhealthy cooking methods, such as using waste materials.

The World Food Program said in May that the official supply of cooking gas stopped and that it was sold on the black market at prices of up to 4000 % of pre -conflict levels.

UN Secretary -General Antonio Guterres said this week, Ghazan has faced a significant shortage of basic supplies and that malnutrition is “rising”.

Almost one in three people in Gaza go days without eating, the United Nations food aid program to caution.

“Malnutrition rises with 90,000 women and a child in urgent need of treatment,” said the World Food Program (WFP.

Additional reports from Matt Murphy