The Israeli aggression on Gaza has pushed 85% of the besieged territory’s population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine.
World Health Organization (WHO) spokesperson Tarik Jasarevic said that the Israeli war on Gaza has caused unprecedented destruction, according to a report by Anadolu news agency.
Jasarevic said that between 70 to 80% of civilian infrastructure, including homes, hospitals, schools, water, and sanitation facilities, has been destroyed or severely damaged by Israel
Jasarevic said it will take decades to repair the infrastructure in Gaza, including the health system that is barely surviving.
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The UN Environment Program estimates that it will take anywhere between three to 12 years to only clear the debris and explosive remnants of the war.
“(The) United Nations Conference on Trade and Development estimates that it will take tens of billions of dollars and decades to reverse the overall economic damage, including to rebuild the health system which is on its knees,” he said, adding,
“Only 13 out of 36 hospitals are partially or minimally functioning in Gaza, the majority of them being located in the south of Gaza.”
Citing a UN report, Jasarevic noted that if the fighting were to stop immediately, reconstruction were to start right away, and the 2007-2022 growth trend were to persist, it would take until 2092 just to restore Gaza’s gross domestic product levels in 2022.
The Israeli aggression on Gaza has pushed 85% of the besieged territory’s population into internal displacement amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.
For the first time since its creation in 1948, Israel stands accused of genocide at the International Court of Justice, the highest judicial body of the United Nations, over its Gaza war.
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An interim ruling in January ordered Tel Aviv to stop genocidal acts and take measures to guarantee that humanitarian assistance is provided to civilians in Gaza, a prerequisite that Israel has failed to comply with so far.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 29,692 Palestinians have been killed, and 69,879 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
Moreover, at least 7,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7.
(PC, WAFA)
” Wasrael ”
the Zionists killed any chance of a peaceful solution: be cause they don’t WANT peeeeeace…
duh! why is everyone going, ” well they’ll stop murdering babies, eventually ” …
America could have stopped this in two seconds if they wanted to. but then they wouldn’t earn money from the sale of weapons.