RAMALLAH: Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammed Mustafa has announced the constitution of a national team in order to reconstruct the Gaza Strip, local media reported on Tuesday. In a live broadcast, he said the state had already provided over 400,000 people in the Gaza Strip with help so far and would continue to do so.
According to a UN Development Program official, the cost of reconstructing Gaza could reach around $50 billion. Abdullah Al-Dardari, director of the UNDP Regional Office for the region, has highlighted the critical situation after any potential truce. He also emphasized that the most dangerous stage would be the day following a truce, as displaced people and those who had lost their houses anxiously awaited the start of the reconstruction process.
War in Gaza broke out following Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel. Israel’s army brutal assault on the Gaza Strip has killed around 42,000 Palestinians since, Gaza’s health ministry said.
The ongoing conflict has displaced nearly all of the enclave’s 2.3 million population, prompted a hunger crisis and led to genocide accusations at the World Court that Israel rejects. The ongoing war in the Gaza Strip has spread through the entire region, drawing in Iran-backed groups in Lebanon, Iraq and Yemen.
Israel has also escalated ground and air operations in recent weeks in Lebanon, killing hundreds, injured thousands and displaced more than a million.
