“We already have very good signals,” Jaco Cilliers from UNDP told reporters during a press conference in Geneva. He did not provide details about the declarations of individual countries, but noted that USD 20 billion would be needed over the next three years.
Cilliers estimated that the more than two-year war between Israel and Hamas has created at least 55 million tons of debris. Asked how long it might take to rebuild the Gaza Strip, he said “probably a decade or decades or even longer.”
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Dramatic situation in Gaza
A week ago, UNOSAT – the UN agency that documents damage based on satellite images – reported that as of September 22-23, approximately 83 percent of buildings in Gaza City were damaged or destroyed. all buildings. UNOSAT identified 17,734 damaged buildings, 4,345 severely damaged buildings, 11,201 moderately damaged buildings and 7,941 probably damaged buildings. As it was added, the total number of 41,221 destroyed and damaged buildings is 7%. higher than it was on July 7, with the number of destroyed buildings increasing by 36%, indicating that the damage is getting worse.
On Monday, at the summit in Sharm el-Sheikh in Egypt, a peace plan for the Gaza Strip developed by US President Donald Trump was signed, intended to end the war that began with the attack of the Palestinian organization Hamas on Israel on October 7, 2023.
