Formation of an international working group to coordinate the removal of war rubble in Gaza


International organizations and a number of donors have begun considering aid plans and financing and development programs to be launched with the entry into force of the ceasefire agreement in Gaza, to address the enormous challenges left by military operations over nearly 15 months of war that have caused unprecedented human suffering.

One of the most prominent of these challenges lies in the process of removing and cleaning up the rubble and the massive remnants of war resulting from the destruction of entire neighborhoods and residential areas and the majority of infrastructure institutions across the Gaza Strip, including hundreds of schools, hospitals, finance, economy, agriculture, industry, production and others.

Preliminary estimates circulating among the United Nations system indicate that the huge amounts of rubble resulting from the destruction in Gaza may exceed 42 million tons, while the initial cost of transporting and disposing of them has been estimated at about one billion dollars, in addition to the huge cost that the reconstruction process in the Strip may require, which may exceed 80 billion dollars.



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