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The billions of dollars that will need to be mobilized for even early recovery work and then in the longer term for reconstruction will be in the tens of billions,
said Steiner
There is still a great deal of nervousness,
Steiner pointed outWe put an estimate of 60 plus years of development lost. 67% of the infrastructure is either damaged or destroyed,
he told DW in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, SwitzerlandIf you look at the trauma that people have lived through, it is not only the physical infrastructure that has suffered enormous damage. People have lost tens of thousands of relatives,
he saidI think Israel, as in any conflict, has to be a good faith negotiating partner,
he saidWe are dealing with a situation where most Gazans will return to either a heavily damaged building they cannot move into or simply a pile of rubble. That rubble is still dangerous. Not only are there potentially bodies that have never been evacuated, there is also unexploded ordnance, landmines. It's an extremely toxic environment,
he saidThe devastation is absolute, affecting homes, streets and infrastructure, making northern Gaza uninhabitable,
Sarhan said
Israel's offensive caused the death or disappearance of over 5,000 people and injured around 13,000, with more than 200,000 displaced,
Badwan saidPeople go to see the ruins of their homes and then return to their tents heartbroken. The destruction is beyond us. No camera lens can capture the barbarity.”
One relative shared
For a campaign of this duration, which is a year’s worth of fighting in a heavily urban environment where you have an adversary that is hiding in amongst that environment, then you would expect an extremely high level of damage,
said Matthew Savill, director of military sciences at the Royal United Services Institute, a British think-tank
If (the tunnel) passes under an urban area, it all gets destroyed,
he saidI mean, we have been relieved by the ceasefire, but at the same time, we are still searching for our martyrs and searching for our graves and can’t find them,
Jundiya told Reuters
When I went into the camp, I teared up, as our camp was not like that, it was the best. When we left all the towers (and) homes were still untouched, and none of the neighbours had been killed,
she lamentedWe are cleaning the house, and removing the rubble, so we are able to return home. Those are the quilts, pillows, nothing was left at the house,
said Palestinian woman Walaa El-Err, pointing to her destroyed belongings at her bombed-out home in Nuseirat, a decades-old refugee camp in central GazaI have been searching and looking for my father’s grave, my brother’s grave and my brother’s wife’s grave, and I can’t find them,
Atef Jundiya, said at the cemetery in Gaza CityThey (Gazans) are able to return home. ...It's a bit of a stretch of the imagination, I would say, to call it homes, because mostly, particularly in the north, it's mountains of rubble that they find. So they need help with that,
Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the U.N. office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs, told a Geneva press briefing on TuesdayI heard the area was hit hard and the house could have been gone, but I was driven by both doubt and hope that it could have been saved,
she told Reuters via a chat appWhat I found wasn't just a house, it is the box of memories, where I had my children, celebrated their birthday parties, made them food, and taught them their first words and moves,
she saidEverything has been devastated — our homes and our hearts,
Qaoud, 32, said as she sat in front of a collapsed building surrounded by rubble
Everything is destroyed as you can see. Nothing remains,
Asma Qaoud told NBC News' crew on the ground on Monday in what remained of the Jabalia refugee camp