The deputy secretary general of the United Nations declared the budget that it could cost to rebuild the city of Palestine. What time would it take.
The The UN estimated this Thursday that the reconstruction of the Gaza Stripdevastated by almost seven months of war between Israel and Hamasit will cost between 30,000 and 40,000 million dollars. They also assure that an effort unprecedented since World War II will be needed.
Since the conflict broke out, only a one-week truce was achieved at the end of November. This made it possible to free a hundred hostages, kidnapped during the October 7 attack by Hamas in Israel, against Palestinian prisoners.
The reconstruction of Gaza after the war according to the UN
“The initial estimates from the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip exceed 30 billion dollars and could reach 40,000 million”, declared Abdallah al Dardari, director of the regional office for the Arab States of the UNDP, at a press conference in Amman.
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“The magnitude of the destruction is enormous and unprecedented (…) It is a mission that the international community has not been confronted with since the Second World War,” added al Dardari, who also serves as deputy secretary general of the UN.
The official estimated that if the reconstruction is carried out through the normal process, it couldto “take decades and the Palestinian people cannot afford to wait decades”.
Reconstruction of Gaza could take decades, says UN
“It is important that we act quickly to relocate the population to decent places and restore their normal life in economic, social, health and educational terms“said al Dardari, for whom this must be achieved “in the first three years after the cessation of hostilities.”
The senior official estimated that The total debris from bombings and explosions reaches 37 million tons and that “72% of residential buildings have been totally or partially destroyed.”
Source: Ambito
