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What is inside the GHF aid box being distributed in Gaza
More than two million Palestinians in Gaza are facing a starvation crisis, with deaths from malnutrition rising by the day, according to the United Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), a group backed by Israel and the US, has been operating in Gaza since late May. It says that it has distributed 91 million meals, primarily in the form of food the BBC has been unable to see these boxes first-hand since Israel has blocked international journalists from entering Gaza, BBC Verify has examined photos and other information shared by the GHF and spoken to aid experts who have raised concerns about their nutritional value. What's in the boxes? Videos have circulated online of Palestinians showing the contents of the boxes, but the GHF has only shared images of them this pictures posted on X show mostly dried food items that require water and fuel to cook, including pasta, chickpeas, lentils, and wheat flour. Also included is cooking oil, salt and tahini, or sesame paste. The GHF has said these boxes also contain some ready-to-eat food, like halva bars - a popular snack made from blending tahini or sesame paste and organisation has provided us with a table of what it describes as a "benchmark" list of items in each box, with a calorie breakdown.A typical box contains 42,500 calories, and that "each box feeds 5.5 people for 3.5 days". according to the table. It occasionally includes substitute items like tea, biscuits, and chocolate, and is also delivering potatoes and onions, but these are not included in the nutritional figures, the GHF has said. 'Serious weaknesses' An international aid development professor from the London School of Economics analysed the list provided by the GHF to BBC Verify and said that while it could deliver sufficient calories needed to survive, it had "serious weaknesses"."In essence, this basket provides a full stomach but an empty diet," Prof Stuart Gordon said. "The biggest flaw is what's missing… This (is) very much a 'first aid' food basket, designed to stop the haemorrhaging effect that is acute hunger.""A diet like this over weeks would lead to 'hidden hunger', increasing the risk of diseases like anaemia and scurvy" he said. Dr Andrew Seal, an associate professor of international nutrition at the University College London, said the food boxes were deficient in calcium, iron, zinc, and vitamins C, D, B12, and K. He added there was also a lack of foods to suit young children."Prolonged consumption of these foods, even if they were made available in adequate amounts, would lead to a range of deficiencies and serious health problems," he added that unlike the GHF, agencies like the UN typically distribute food in bulk and supplement it with targeted nutrition for vulnerable groups. The World Food Programme (WFP) has said it also aims to deliver emergency supplies for young children and pregnant GHF did not respond to BBC Verify's questions surrounding the advice it received about the nutritional contents of its aid boxes or whether it planned to address concerns raised by experts. For those who manage to get hold of a box, they still need water and fuel to cook the dried goods, despite the water crisis and severe fuel shortage facing UN's Office of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) warned this week that the water crisis in Gaza was rapidly deteriorating. It also warned that families have had to resort to unsafe and unhealthy cooking methods, such as using waste WFP said in May that official supplies of cooking gas stopped and that it was being sold on the black market at prices up to 4,000% higher than pre-conflict Secretary General António Guterres said this week Gazans were facing grave shortages of basic supplies and that malnutrition was "soaring".Almost one in three people in Gaza are going days without eating, the UN's food aid programme has warned."Malnutrition is surging with 90,000 women and children in urgent need of treatment," the World Food Programme (WFP) said on reporting by Matt Murphy What do you want BBC Verify to investigate?
Sky News
18 hours ago
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Aid is sitting idle in Gaza - where there is now widespread malnutrition
Israel controls all the borders with Gaza - and there are just a handful of crossing points for aid trucks including Kerem Shalom. It's hot and dusty and the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) want to make the point that there is aid sitting idle just over the border in Gaza. This, after the UN described the hunger crisis on top of 21 months of conflict between Israel and Hamas in Gaza as a "horror show". 3:49 The UN says Gaza needs 500 trucks of aid to be distributed a day - and that was before this crisis. Israel stands accused of presiding over the breakdown of aid in Gaza, but it's a complex web of accusations. Israel says there is no famine in Gaza - but aid organisations, including the UN, are aghast, saying even their own staff are struggling to continue working in the face of such a desperate shortage of food. 1:20 Israel may be keen to highlight the parked up trucks on the Gazan side - but aid groups say getting the aid to the border is the easy part. They say distribution is caught up in Israel's refusal to sufficiently guarantee safe passage to the vehicles, given it controls well over 80% of the land in an active war zone. Palestinian truck drivers need to be vetted and run the gauntlet of not only the war but also desperate Gazans trying to hijack goods from their lorries. Israel reminds the world of its accusation that Hamas, which, together with other Islamist groups, is still holding 20 living Israeli hostages, profited from aid going into Gaza until the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) took over aid distribution in May. But the Israeli and American-backed GHF aid sites are mainly in the south of Gaza and Israel is accused of trying to drive people southwards, leaving the north of Gaza pretty much as a place nobody can live. There are also claims from the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry that around 1,000 people have died at or near GHF sites or trying to get food since the end of May. The GHF and Israel refute this. The UN's aid contribution in Gaza now is a trickle compared to what it was before the GHF took over. But it is still trying to support people who refuse to leave what's left of their homes across the sliver of land where more than two million people live, where there is now widespread malnutrition.
BBC News
2 days ago
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Plans to demolish 400-year-old Coventry building for new home
A historic building, parts of which are thought to be more than 400 years old, could be demolished to make way for a new have been submitted to the city council to knock down The Langleys, in Stoke Green, Coventry, which was built in property, most recently used as a care home, was put up for sale for £800,000 in 2023.A statement included in plans submitted by Warwickshire firm Agility Planning & Design Ltd said that once the property was demolished, a self-build house would be put in its place. The replacement building would be of "high-quality design" that would "potentially enhance the conservation", the heritage statement said."The existing building has had extensive alterations and much of the original features have been lost over time," it added."Although the historical age of the property dates to the 17th century, changes have been unsympathetic and diminished the overall quality and attractiveness of the heritage asset."The building, which is located near to the Joseph Levi Clock in the Stoke Green Conservation Area, has been considerably altered and extended prior to being opened as a care home in to the Coventry Society and Stoke Local History Group, owners Jeffrey Graham and his brother Leonard Rawnsley spent £30,000 converting the house into a retirement Graham said he had been told that the house was once known as The Bowling Green Inn, with historic records mentioning a Bowling Alley House at Stoke Green in 1641. This news was gathered by the Local Democracy Reporting Service, which covers councils and other public service organisations. Follow BBC Coventry & Warwickshire on BBC Sounds, Facebook, X and Instagram.
