Gaza Needs 130,000 Housing Units to Shelter Homeless Civilians
Talking to the Jordanian prime minister during a stopover in Jordan on Tuesday, Hassayna raised alarm bells over the 7,000 homeless Palestinians sheltering in the UNRWA schools after they lost their homes in the Israeli aggression, PIC reported.
Hassayna briefed his Jordanian host on latest developments as regards delays in the rebuilding process and the huge discrepancies between Gaza’s needs and actual resources.
He further pointed out the reluctance maintained by the donor countries to dispatch the funds pledged in the Cairo Reconstruction Conference.
He Zionist regime unleashed attacks on Gaza in early July 2014 and later expanded its military campaign with a ground invasion into the Palestinian territory. The war ended in late August that year.
Over 2,130 Palestinians lost their lives and some 11,000 were injured. Gaza Health officials say the victims included 578 children and nearly 260 women.
About 1,500 buildings and structures were also demolished during the Israeli offensive.
Rebuilding has hardly started in Gaza, while experts say it will take a long time even if the Israeli regime considerably eases its blockade on the territory.
