2024-05-03 11:33:55
“The United Nations Development Program’s preliminary estimates for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip exceed 30 billion. US dollars and can reach 40 billion. US dollars,” said UN Assistant Secretary-General Abdallah al-Dardari.
“The scale of the destruction is huge and unprecedented… This is a mission the world community has not faced since World War II,” Al-Dardari said at a press conference in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
He added that if the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip were to follow the normal process, the reconstruction could “take decades, and the Palestinians do not have the luxury of waiting decades.”
“Therefore, it is important that we act quickly so that people can be accommodated in decent housing and their lives can be restored to normal – economically, socially, health care and educationally,” Al-Dardari said.
“This is our top priority, it must be implemented within the first three years after the cessation of hostilities,” he said.
The UN Deputy Secretary General stated that 37 million people were injured due to the bombings and explosions. tons of rubble.
“We are talking about a huge number that is increasing every day,” he claimed. – The latest data show that it is already approaching 40 million. tons.”
The UN official also said that “72 percent was completely or partially destroyed. of all residential buildings’.
“Reconstruction must be planned carefully, efficiently and extremely flexibly, because we do not know how the war will end” and what kind of governance will be established in the Gaza Strip after the end of the hostilities, noted A. al-Dardari.
2024-05-03 11:33:55