On starvation – Amria Hass in Haaretz:

‘Between the Israeli guard posts in the northern Gaza Strip, whose soldiers enjoy a steady supply of food and water, roam hundreds of thousands of thirsty, starving Palestinians subsisting on poultry feed, grass, and contaminated water.
We don't know whether independent observers, neither Israeli nor Palestinian, will be able to determine in the coming days what caused most of the casualties among the people who waited for aid trucks, carrying flour to Gaza city, on Thursday, February 29: whether it was mainly Israeli gunfire, or, as the military claims, a stampede as Gazans fled after soldiers fired into the air and killed or wounded a few they saw as threats.’

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‘However, the breakdown points to amateurish negligence, if only from the angle of public relations and diplomacy. Israel and its military must soon convince the International Court of Justice in The Hague that it is is indeed permitting humanitarian aid into Gaza as one of the measures to prevent genocide from being committed. The military is required to work together with the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (part of the Defense Ministry), which issues daily English-language information on the aid trucks it has allowed into Gaza and tries with all its might to give the impression that Israel is doing everything in its power so bombarded Palestinian civilians have food.
Western governments are backing Israel and supporting its war, which is one of the reasons for its protraction. They apparently don't agree with the Palestinian position: that this is deliberate starvation of Gaza's population, as demanded by the most extreme in Israel's extreme-right government, and in accordance with the disproved theory that the tougher the pressure, the sooner the hostages will be released.’ (…)
‘Furthermore, as famine spreads, so does the practice of "spontaneous distribution," as aid organizations call raids on trucks' cargo by individuals or groups. Another reason for the low number of trucks is drivers' fear for their lives, as no one protects them from armed gangs that loot goods for sale on the black market. It's hard to verify – independently, without being there, and independent of the IDF's claims – the extent of looting that Hamas is engaged in in order to supply food for its members.’ (…)

‘Regardless, the shooting at or toward the starving mass of people early Thursday morning was no random accident resulting from mental fatigue. It took shape under the military spirit that preceded the October 7 massacre and intensified after it: on the one hand, disdain for Palestinians, seen as people who are less worthy than Israelis, and on the other, a sweeping incrimination of them as a group that poses a threat by definition. If it's acceptable to bomb residential buildings with their civilian occupants inside because of the presence of a single senior Hamas member, then there must surely be a license to shoot at people in the dark, indifferent to the fact that their hungry, elderly parents or little children are waiting for them to return with some flour.’

Read the article here.

Food distribution with Hamas might not be ideal, food distribution without Hamas is anarchy, and the combination of anarchy and starvation is deadly. As was pointed out by others, in the end the IDF will be forced to organize the distribution of food. Then there will be no other option than to rely on international organizations. The Israeli government nor the military establishment will be willing to turn soldiers into aid workers.

As a strategy the starvation of a population in the 21st century is not a very good idea, it might have worked during the Eighty Years War, but we live in different times.