Palestinians walk past the ruins of houses destroyed during Israel's military offensive, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, March 20, 2024.
Rebuilding Gaza's shattered homes will take at least until 2040 but could drag on for many decades, according to a UN report released on Thursday.At least 370,000 housing units in Gaza have been damaged, including 79,000 that were completely destroyed in Israeli bombings, according to the new UN report that suggests it would take at least 16 years to rebuild the territory in a best case scenario.
After previous Israel-Hamas conflicts, housing was rebuilt at a rate of 992 units year. Even in a best-case scenario in which construction materials are delivered five times as fast as in the last Gaza crisis in 2021, it would take until 2040 to rebuild the destroyed houses, without repairing the damaged ones, the report said.
A Palestinian child looks on as people check the damage in a house destroyed by an Israeli bombardment in Rafah, in southern Gaza, on April 27. In a scenario where the war lasts nine months, poverty is set to increase from 38.8 per cent of Gaza's population at the end of 2023 to 60.7 per cent, dragging a large portion of the middle class below the poverty line, the report said.
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