Israeli study finds starvation in Gaza was result of deliberate policy

Israeli study finds starvation in Gaza was result of deliberate policy Submitted by Nadav Rapaport on Wed, 06/03/2026 - 13:31 Scholar Shmuel Lederman says policies point to a systematic 'architecture of starvation’ amid public and political denial Displaced Palestinian children receive food from a charity kitchen at the Nuseirat refugee camp in the central Gaza Strip on 13 April 2026 (Eyad Baba/AFP) Off A recent Israeli study has concluded that starvation in Gaza resulted from a premeditated policy, despite sustained public denial by the Israeli government and much of the media. Titled Data for Denial: The Smokescreen Behind the Starvation of Gaza , the study was published last month by the Forum for Regional Thinking at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. Its author, Shmuel Lederman, an Israeli scholar specialising in genocide studies, told Middle East Eye that he was motivated by what he described as widespread denial within Israel over starvation in Gaza during the two-year genocide that began in October 2023.