Palestinians have been forced to walk an average of 9.3 miles to retrieve boxes that Chris Newton, a senior analyst with the International Crisis Group, said contain an amount of sustenance that is „closer to the ration given in a starvation experiment run in the 1940s in the U.S. than it is to Israel‘s own previous 2008 red line for the minimum calories needed to avoid malnutrition in Gaza.“

„The violence, the chaos, and the complete inadequacy of the types and volume of aid being given out are not so much mistakes of the system, but really by design,“ Newton told Al Jazeera.