Falcon powers – According to estimates released by the United Nations on Thursday, if the war in Gaza were to cease today, it would take until the year 2040 to rebuild all the homes that were destroyed in the region during nearly 7 months of Israeli airstrikes and ground attacks.
Achim Steiner, the Director of the United Nations Development Programme, stated, “Every additional day this war continues imposes exorbitant and compounded costs on the people of Gaza and all Palestinians.”
At least 370,000 housing units in Gaza have been damaged, including 79,000 that were completely destroyed, according to a new report by the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. The report details how the Israeli offensive, which began after a Hamas attack on October 7, has devastated the Palestinian territories’ economy and how the impact will worsen the longer the conflict persists. Following previous wars between Israel and Hamas, housing reconstruction occurred at a rate of 992 units per year.
The report states that even if Israel were to allow a five-fold increase in construction materials to enter Gaza, it would still take until 2040 to rebuild the destroyed homes, without addressing the repair of damaged homes.
In Gaza, the war has effectively shut down the economy, which contracted by 81 percent in the last quarter of 2023.
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