UN DECLARES GAZA WILL NEED LARGEST POST-WAR RECONSTRUCTION SINCE 1945 OVER $40 BILLION!
May 6, 2024The level of destruction in Gaza has not been since World War II, according to a United Nations official who estimated that post-war reconstruction could cost up to $50bn.
“We have not seen anything like this since 1945…That intensity, in such a short time and the massive scale of destruction,” Abdallah al-Dardari, director of the regional bureau for Arab states at the UN Development Programme (UNDP), said late last week.
More than 70 per cent of all housing has been destroyed, the UN official said, and about 37 million tonnes of debris needs to be removed. By comparison, during the 2014 Israel-Hamas war in Gaza, about 2.4 million tonnes of debris were removed.
Overall, the level of destruction is such that the UNDP estimates that the human development index in Gaza has regressed by 40 years. The index assesses factors including years of gains in schooling, education attainment, health and life expectancy at birth.
“All investments in human development…for the last 40 years in Gaza have been wiped out,” al-Dardari said. “We are almost back in the ’80s,” he added.
The overall cost of post-war reconstruction in Gaza would cost between $40-50bn “at least”, he said.
The UN agency’s top priority would be a three-year post-war recovery phase to provide temporary shelter and basic services for Palestinians to be able to return to the sites of their former homes.
Despite all of this independent analysis and findings, Israel continues to PROFESS it “IS ABIDING BY INTERNATIONAL LAW AND ONLY TARGETING HAMAS”.
If anyone still believes this, then you are brainwashed and completely ignorant.
WE ARE LIVING IN DYSTOPIAN TIMES!
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