United Nations: Gaza debris removal will take 15 years / 40 billion dollars is needed for reconstruction

The Guardian newspaper quoted the recent assessment of the United Nations Environment Program and wrote: 137,297 buildings have been damaged in the Gaza Strip, which is more than half of all the buildings in the Gaza Strip. includes the region. Among these buildings, a little more than a quarter were destroyed, about a tenth were severely damaged, and a third were partially damaged.

This assessment showed that an area of ​​250 to 500 hectares is needed to dump and bury non-recyclable debris.

In May, the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) announced that rebuilding Gaza’s destroyed homes would take at best until 2040, and that rebuilding the entire region would cost upwards of $40 billion. This assessment showed that the Zionist regime’s war against the people of the Gaza Strip can reduce the level of health, education and wealth in this area to the level of 1980 and destroy 44 years of development.

Schools, health centers, roads, sewage network and other vital infrastructures of the Gaza Strip have been severely damaged and according to this program, the possible cost of rebuilding the Gaza Strip is now double the estimate 7 months ago and is increasing day by day. .

The Gaza Strip’s Civil Defense Organization has previously said that the piles of rubble left behind are full of unexploded ordnance, causing “more than 10 explosions per week” and causing deaths and amputations.

The Ministry of Health of Palestine in the Gaza Strip reported today Monday that 296 Palestinians were martyred and wounded in the attacks of the Zionist regime army in the past 24 hours in this area and the number of martyrs increased to more than 38 thousand 664 people since the 7th of October 2023 (15 October 1402). ) announced.

Source: IRNA