The thing about starvation in modern times is that it's entirely preventable.

The world produces more than enough calories to nourish every soul on the planet.

So the images we're seeing from Gaza, a violent panic at food distribution sites, of babies

like skeletons, dying because their mothers can't produce milk to nurse them and can't

get their hands on formula, those things don't have to happen.

From KERA in Dallas, this is think. I'm Chris Boyd. There is plenty of blame being

lobbed back and forth, the war in Gaza that has displaced nearly two million people,

Israeli blockades of humanitarian aid deliveries, seizures of some supplies that do get

through by Hamas fighters, who some say benefit from the global attention to the starvation of Gaza's

civilians. There are also people working under desperate conditions to keep that population alive.

And many, including my guests, say the only way to truly end the suffering will be for the warring

parties to end the fighting permanently.

Kieran Donnelly is Senior vice president for international programs at the

International Rescue Committee, which has been providing food, cash assistance, and hygiene and

sanitation in Gaza. Kieran, welcome to think. Thanks, Chris. Thanks for having me on.

1.9 million people specifically have been displaced in Gaza out of a population of just over two

million, so just about everyone.

Before we get into issues with aid availability, just tell us a little bit about how displacement

contributes to the risk of insufficient food for people.

So displacement and some of the accompanying conditions on the ground, because we've got to think about this displacement in Gaza in the context of a place that was very densely populated and in the context in which most of the infrastructure has been destroyed, both residential but also public health infrastructure,

market infrastructure, over the course of the last 21 months. And so what that means is for

people who are displaced and people have been displaced multiple times in many, many cases,

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