NEW YORK May 02. 2024 (Saba) - The United Nations has announced that the total cost of rebuilding Gaza is estimated at between $30 billion and $40 billion as a result of the "massive and unprecedented scale of destruction" after seven months of Zionist aggression on the Strip.
The Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Abdullah Al-Dardari, said at a joint press conference in Amman with the Director of the Regional Bureau for Arab States at the United Nations Development Program today, that "the initial estimates of the United Nations Development Program to rebuild everything destroyed in the Gaza Strip exceed $ 30 billion and even reach $ 40 billion."
"The scale of the destruction is huge and unprecedented, it is a task that the international community has not dealt with since World War II."
"Financing reconstruction has been discussed with Arab countries, and there are very positive signs so far," al-Dardari said, without giving further details.
Relying on 'traditional frameworks' for reconstruction means that "it can take decades, and the Palestinian people do not have the luxury of decades, so it is important that we quickly house people in decent housing and restore their normal economic, social, health and educational lives during the first three years after the ceasefire," he said.
Al-Dardari reiterated that "the total aggregate accumulated so far in Gaza reaches "37 million tons," considering that this figure "is huge and rising daily, and the latest data indicate that it is almost forty million tons."
He explained that "72 percent of residential buildings were completely or partially destroyed, while human development in Gaza with all its components of health, education, economy and infrastructure declined for 40 years, and forty years of efforts and investments went unheeded."
"The most dangerous stage is that the shooting stops and we are not ready, so we must be ready and ready to provide dignified temporary housing, remove the rubble and deal with thousands of bodies under this rubble," he said.
Ongoing negotiations between the two sides (Hamas and Israel) have so far not led to an agreement on a truce or ceasefire in the Gaza Strip, where 34,596 people have been killed in Zionist shelling accompanied by ground operations, according to the Gaza Health Ministry.
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resource : Saba
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