Press TV – May 3, 2024
A United Nations official says the destruction caused by Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip is unseen since the Second World War, estimating that the reconstruction of the Palestinian territory could take 80 years and cost up to $40 billion.
Speaking at a press conference in the Jordanian capital Amman on Thursday, Abdallah al-Dardari, UN assistant secretary-general and director of the UN Development Program’s (UNDP) regional office for the Arab states, added that the Israeli aggression has completely or partially destroyed 72 percent of all residential buildings in Gaza.
“The United Nations Development Programme’s initial estimates for the reconstruction of… the Gaza Strip surpass $30 billion and could reach up to $40 billion,” he said.
“The scale of the destruction is huge and unprecedented… This is a mission that the global community has not dealt with since World War II.”
He also estimated the Israeli attacks have left 37 million tons of rubble across Gaza, warning that the “colossal figure” is increasing every day and approaching 40 million tons.
Dardari further said that the rebuilding of the Gaza Strip through a normal process could take decades.
Earlier, the UN Development Programme released an assessment, noting that Gaza would need “approximately 80 years to restore all the fully destroyed housing units” under a scenario assuming the pace of reconstruction follows the trend of several previous Gaza conflicts.
Palestinian child survives Israeli airstrike targeting children in Gaza.
A Palestinian child miraculously survived an Israeli airstrike that targeted him and other children while they were playing in their neighborhood in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/gaWUoQ4O6V
— Palestine Highlights (@PalHighlight) May 2, 2024
“It is therefore important that we act quickly to re-house people in decent housing and restore their lives to normal – economically, socially, in terms of health and education,” he noted. “This is our top priority, and it must be achieved within the first three years following the cessation of hostilities.”
The UN official also stressed that the Gaza genocide has wiped out 40 years worth of investments in the territory’s human development, saying, “We are almost back in the ’80s.”
Israel unleashed its US-backed Gaza onslaught on October 7 after the Palestinian Hamas resistance group carried out a surprise operation against the occupying entity in retaliation for its intensified atrocities against the Palestinian people.
The Tel Aviv regime has so far killed at least 34,596 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured 77,816 others.
‘1.74mn Palestinians pushed into poverty since Gaza war’
Additionally, on Thursday, a joint study by the UNDP and the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), found that the poverty rate in Palestine has surged to 58.4 percent since Israel’s Gaza offensive, pushing nearly 1.74 million additional people into poverty.
At the same time, it added, Palestine’s gross domestic product (GDP) plummeted by 26.9 percent, resulting in a loss of $7.1 billion compared to a 2023 baseline.
The relentless Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip has set back Palestine’s overall socio-economic development by more than 20 years, according to new @UNDP–@UNESCWA reporthttps://t.co/Hdq2YBtZX0
— UN News (@UN_News_Centre) May 2, 2024
The assessment also predicted that the poverty level could more than double to 60.7 percent and the GDP would further decline by 29 percent if the war were to continue for nine months.
“Every additional day that this war continues is exacting huge and compounding costs to Gazans and all Palestinians, now and in the medium and long term,” UNDP Administrator Achim Steiner warned.
“Unprecedented levels of human losses, capital destruction, and the steep rise in poverty in such a short period of time will precipitate a serious development crisis that jeopardizes the future of generations to come.”
Meanwhile, the report said that human development in Gaza will be set back by 44 years if the Israeli aggression continues for nine months.
They say birds aren’t found around Auschwitz as they pick up the atmosphere of dreadful things having happened there and they stay away. Auschwitz I and II was only about two square miles I believe, while Gaza is over ten times that size with brutal murder committed in every part of it. If it’s true Auschwitz is barren of bird life, even though gas chambers probably never existed there but forced labour, cruelty and mass dying certainly did, then Gaza should be left as it is and refuse Jewish appeals to make the place as new so to cover its tracks.
Leave that landscape as a monument to European Jewry and what it did to rid itself of the people whose land it was. They abandoned humanity there, it is no longer a place for people.
The wanton destruction is unforgivable, and all on the back of a dodgy October 7 event. It all smells really bad.
It just took the Germans a year or two after WWII to rebuild their towns/cities demolished by the Alllied Christian-Commie nutjobs. Takes these Semitic mongrels 80 years though.
it is wonderful that finaly the jews show their true
face to the world that they over centuries + holo
propaganda kept hidden ! and it is absolutely
unimportant if they are zionists, talmudists, secular
reformed,globalists,communists,oligarchs,plutocrats .
ITS THE SAME MAFIA TRIBE !
Of course the Jewish State should pay the reparations and pay the reparations and ………….
Re: Gaza
Rebuild ?
The whole point of this sordid saga is for Israhell to acquire any/all Palestinian land. PERIOD.
This entire”war”is to displace them all if not outright wipe them out.
Mad Dog Israhell keeps advancing to acquire the last square inch of Palestinian land which will result in mass exodus of survivors to other nations.
Only ” rebuild ” is more land stolen and built on by Israhell.
israel refused to pay compensation for destroying japan with the stuxnet virus
it looks like the international
court will force israel to pay or rebuild the land they stole and the mass murders
Palestine is a huge amount of money
US Zionist queer Dave Rubin has a 15s video titled ‘Shocking Images of UCLA Post-Protest’. Has he not seen Gaza post-IDF? He says the mess was left by anti-genocide protestors (though he calls them larping Hamas terrorists) when it was pro-Zionist attackers who violently stormed the camp and then the arresting police officers following them in who left it like that.
When the tide turns he’ll not worm his way out of his Zio-trash talk.
Rebuilt ? It will be rebuilt as a seaside resort for Israelis.
Eichmann X–I was about to say the same thing, and the same with an earlier article
what you dream !
jews will pay nothing . they will suck other
european,american nations with their tricky
manners . in the end our tax payers will pay.
like we always payed jews tricky warmongering.
A simple alternative to Gaza reconstruction would be that all Israelis go somewhere else, leave all their houses, hospitals and everything in occupied Palestine and the Palestinians would move in and use those beatiful places that was built with American money anyways. The Palestinians would finally have their land back, decent housing and normal life and this could be a partial compensation for having been forced to live in an open air concentration camp for some 78 years…
i see that twat carl jones and his natzis are back
rixon please delete him