2024-04-08T06:22:38+00:00
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/ The value of the economic losses witnessed by the Gaza Strip, since the start of the Israeli ground attacks on it, amounted to approximately 18.5 billion dollars, which represents 97% of the Palestinian gross domestic product in the West Bank and Gaza in 2022.
According to a joint report by the United Nations and the World Bank, entitled “Interim Damage Assessment,” which covered the time period between October 7, 2023 and the end of January 2024, the ratios of sector losses to the total loss were as follows:
Housing sector 72%, trade, industry and services sector 9%, agriculture sector 3.4%, health sector 3%, water, sanitation and hygiene sector 2.7%, environment sector 2.2%, transportation sector 1.9%, education sector 1.8%, cultural heritage sector 1.7% The energy sector 1.5%, the information and communications technology sector 0.5%, and the municipal services sector 0.1%.
According to the joint report, the losses appeared as if they had caused all the infrastructure to be destroyed and leveled to the ground, leaving only a few untouched assets, indicating that about 26 million tons of debris and rubble were left behind by the destruction operations resulting from the Israeli bombing, while estimates indicate Until it takes years to remove it.
In the same context, the United Nations and World Bank report indicated that more than half of the population of the Gaza Strip is on the brink of famine, and the entire population suffers from severe food insecurity and malnutrition, explaining that “about a million people in Gaza are homeless, and 75% of the population has become homeless.” The population is displaced.”
The report found that the war has “catastrophic cumulative effects on physical and psychological health that have severely affected women, children, the elderly, and people with disabilities, and it is expected that this will lead to lifelong consequences related to the development of today’s children in the Palestinian Strip.”
He continued: “With the damage or destruction of 84% of health facilities in Gaza and the lack of electricity and water to operate the remaining facilities, residents are suffering from a lack of access to health care and life-saving first aid.”
He added, “The collapse extended to the water and sanitation system in Gaza, which has become less than 5% of its previous capacity, and the population has become dependent on limited water rations to help them survive,” stressing that “the education system in Gaza has suffered a complete collapse, as it has become 100% of its capacity.” Children are out of school because of the war.”
Since the first week of the war, Gaza’s power grids and solar generation systems have been disrupted; This led to an almost total power outage, and 92% of the main roads were destroyed or damaged, while the communications sector infrastructure was paralyzed. This has made it more difficult to deliver basic humanitarian aid to the population.
In conclusion, the report recommended increasing humanitarian relief efforts and food aid, providing shelter for the displaced, and restoring basic services, while the number of displaced people and people displaced due to the Israeli war on Gaza during the period from October 7 to April 2 reached 1.7 million, according to the World Health Organization.