re: Who builds Hamas' terror tunnels?

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If Gaza didn't distribute that food adequately, then I'm missing how that is Israel's problem.

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Really? "Adequately?"

If you're letting in a precisely calculated number of calories per person to stave off malnutrition, you need more than an "adequate" food distribution network. You need a perfect one. Especially since it's not just about calories, but about the distribution of macro- and micro-nutrients. To say nothing of how accurate the IDF's bookkeeping is with regard to Gaza's birthrate.

But let's humor your idiotic question. How is it Israel's problem that Gaza's food distribution network isn't "adequate?" Well, what are some of the things that a food distribution network requires?

Transportation? LINK

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If it's not the power getting cut, leaving entire neighborhoods in darkness, then it's the water not reaching the top floors or the cooking gas running out. If you have an electric generator, some small part of it is bound to be broken and unfixable, because even before the hermetic three-week siege, Israel prohibited bringing in any spare parts for cars, machines and household electric appliances.

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Gaza is the long Nasser Street which has been blocked to traffic for over a year. Its asphalt is torn out and it is riddled with potholes and mounds of sand. When Israel forbade bringing any construction materials and raw materials into the strip, the renovation work stopped on this thoroughfare, the main access to three hospitals, which are always in danger of equipment failure if some part breaks down.

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Refrigeration? LINK

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The Gaza Strip's sole power plant started up again on Monday after Israel allowed quantities of Qatari-paid fuel into the enclave to ease a power crisis, Palestinian officials said.

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On Saturday, the plant, a main source of electricity for Gaza's 1.8 million people, stopped due to fuel shortages, a move that extended daily blackouts from eight hours a day to 12.

Raed Fattouh, the Palestinian Authority coordinator of supplies into Gaza Strip, told Reuters that Israel allowed in 110,000 liters of fuel on Sunday for the plant and was pumping an additional 500,000 liters on Monday.

"The plant was put back into operation," Gaza Energy Authority's Ahmed Abu Al-Amrain said.

A few months ago the power plant was switched off for 43 days due to a fuel shortage when neighboring Egypt closed off smuggling tunnels. Israel eventually allowed in fuel paid for by Qatar when a storm swept the region.

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That most basic tool of distribution... the market? LINK

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told his Dutch counterpart on Sunday that while Israel was grateful for the Netherlands’ donation of a container scanner for use at a Gaza crossing, it still could not allow exports from Gaza to the West Bank due to the possibility that the equipment could be abused.

Israel’s refusal to allow Gaza to use the scanner to screen exports to the West Bank angered the Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who canceled a planned dedication ceremony for the scanner at the Kerem Shalom crossing.

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(Note that the third story is an example of Israel being aware of the "terror tunnels" for some time now. Their politicians are just shifting casus belli every few weeks as it suits them.)