I have read what the WFP have said. They released a report on it last week and I read it carefully. They I quote from the report, linked below and with my questions / comments in bold:
Famine – even in northern Gaza – can be halted if full access is facilitated for aid organizations to provide food, water, nutrition products, medicines, health and sanitation services, at scale, to the entire civilian population. For this to be possible, a humanitarian ceasefire is necessary.
So they are saying they need a ceasefire here. Which unfortunately is not really in Israel's power to provide. Hamas can provide this, at any time, by simply returning the hostages and ceasing fighting.
WFP estimates that simply addressing the basic food needs will require at least 300 trucks to enter Gaza every day and distribute food, especially in the north. WFP has only managed to take nine convoys to the north since the start of the year
So they are saying they need 300 trucks a day of food - I have seen conflicting claims from other NGOs (including the UN!) saying they need "at least 500", so the situation seems mired in very conflicting reports on this. Hence I took the time to go and try and work out for myself what the actual truth was. The issue with this conflict, compared to others, is that people - even respected organisations - frequently use hyperbole for the simple reason that they are politicised.
The latest of these, on Sunday night, involved 18 truckloads of food supplies delivered by WFP to Gaza City. The convoy, the second to use a coordinated route into Gaza City and the north, delivered some 274 metric tons of wheat flour, food parcels and ready-to-eat rations. This route needs to be made available for daily convoys and safe access to the north.
Dispatching aid to the north of Gaza needs day-to-day approvals from Israeli authorities. During the long waits at the Wadi Gaza checkpoint, truck convoys face looting and are frequently turned back. If they do get through, there is a high risk of more looting along the difficult route north.
WFP and our partners have food supplies ready, at the border and in the region, to feed all 2.2 million people across Gaza -- but moving food into and within Gaza is like trying to navigate a maze, with obstacles at every turn,” said WFP Deputy Executive Director and Chief Operating Officer, Carl Skau. “The complicated border controls, combined with the high tensions and desperation inside Gaza, make it nearly impossible for food supplies to reach people in need, particularly in the north. But the delivery of 18 trucks of food on Sunday shows that it can be done. This cannot be a one-off, but this needs to be sustained, regular and at scale to support those in need.”
So what they're saying is that getting trucks through takes too long and trucks are frequently turned back, that delivering food is unsafe and that there is a "high risk" of looting. So the problem is not just quantity, it is that once the food is inside it is hard to get it to people and there is a high risk of it being stolen!
To provide the necessary response, WFP and its humanitarian partners need Israel to provide more entry points into Gaza, direct access via crossings in the north, and the use of Ashdod port in Israel to bring in food aid. Sustained road access – both into Gaza and then within Gaza - is critical because other options, such as airdrops, cannot deliver the volume of aid urgently needed to avert imminent famine. Above all, a ceasefire is urgently needed for WFP and the humanitarian community to roll out a massive relief operation reaching all the communities in need.
So it sounds like what THEY are saying is that it's not ALL "ISRAEL IS STARVING PEOPLE", but actually a far more complex issue where the facts are far less black and white than that. It sounds like they are saying that a ceasefire is the only way of solving the problem, and that is not a one-sided decision. In fact, Hamas, as the actually GOVERNMENT of Gaza are actually far more responsible for the lives of their people than Israel is. They are also far more responsible than Israel is for ensuring food is delivered safely to people - but it certainly sounds like they -and possibly other armed groups - are actually stealing the food!
So please, do not tell me I am "not interested", I am very interested. What I am not interested in is starving people being used as a stick to portray Israel as evil when they are fighting against people who refuse to surrender or give their hostages back, and who are evidently "highly likely" to steal any bloody food that gets in!
https://www.wfp.org/news/famine-imminent-northern-gaza-new-report-warns#:~:text=Dispatching%20aid%20to%20the%20north,along%20the%20difficult%20route%20north.