LONDON (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Estimates vary regarding the costs of Gaza reconstruction after 15 months of Israeli genocidal war on the besieged enclave.
In August 2024, the Bloomberg Network quoted experts as assessing the costs of Gaza reconstruction and restoring the destroyed labor market may exceed $80 billion, along with $700 million to remove 42 million tons of rubble.
In a previous report, the World Bank and the United Nations estimated the damage to the vital infrastructure in Gaza between October 2023 and January 2024 at about $18.5 billion.
Last October, the UN indicated that the removal of 42 million tons of aggregate left by the Israeli occupation aggression may take years and cost $1.2 billion.
In April 2024, the UN pointed out that the removal of the rubble will likely take 14 years, adding that the Palestinian Ministry of Health estimated last May that there were about 10,000 bodies under the rubble.
A UN report published in 2024 shows that rebuilding destroyed houses in the Gaza Strip may continue until at least 2040, and it may take decades.
According to the UN satellite data in December, about 69% of the buildings in Gaza, more than 170,000 buildings, were destroyed or leveled to the ground.
According to UN estimates, this statistic includes a total of 245,123 individual apartments, while the United Nations Emergency Relief Office said that more than 1.8 million people in the Gaza Strip currently need an emergency shelter.
A UN and World Bank report estimated that the infrastructure damage was about $18.5 billion until the end of January 2024.
UN-analyzed satellite images show that more than half of the agricultural lands in Gaza had been damaged due to the war, while the UN Food and Agriculture Organization said last year that 15,000 heads of livestock, more than 95% of the total livestock, and about half of the sheep were killed or died since the start of the fighting.
As for institutions, Palestinian data show that the war led to the destruction of more than 200 government establishments, 136 schools, 823 mosques and three churches.
The UN Humanitarian Office report showed that many hospitals were destroyed during the aggression, with only 17 out of 36 units partially operating in January.
Last Thursday, the World Health Organization announced that rebuilding the health system in the Gaza Strip in the coming years requires $10 billion.
