Jon, your answer to the lentil question is below:
http://www.thefreepressonline.co.uk/news/1/2216.htm
http://articles.nydailynews.com/2011-03-17/news/29172449_1_gaza-blockade...
http://www.newsmax.com/KenTimmerman/Israel-terrorist-weapons-Iran/2011/0...
Quotes from the Newsmax article below:
"In October, CMA-CGM acknowledged that one of its ships had picked up 13 shipping containers of rockets, grenades, and explosives at the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas, and taken them to Lagos, Nigeria, where they were seized by Nigerian authorities.
The company said it was the victim of a false Customs declaration and that labels on the crates indicated they contained stone and glass wool."
As far as the so called humanitarian crisis in the Gaza, read what the Red Cross has to say: