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More numbers at the link. [IsraelTimes] First comprehensive report since ceasefire, compiled by World Bank, UN and EU, finds war caused over $35 billion of direct damage and over $22 billion more of economic losses
Rebuilding Gazoo
...Hellhole adjunct to Israel and Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, inhabited by Gazooks. The place was acquired in the wake of the 1967 War and then presented to Paleostinian control in 2006 by Ariel Sharon, who had entered his dotage. It is currently ruled with a rusty iron fist by Hamas with about the living conditions you'd expect. It periodically attacks the Hated Zionist Entity whenever Iran needs a ruckus created or the hard boyz get bored, getting thumped by the IDF in return. The ruling turbans then wave the bloody shirt and holler loudly about oppression and disproportionate response ...
to its prewar state will cost upwards of $71 billion over five years, according to a recent report by the World Bank, United Nations
...boodling on the grand scale...
and European Union
...the successor to the Holy Roman Empire, only without the Hapsburgs and the nifty uniforms and the dancing...
, the first such assessment of the damage caused to the enclave afteran October ceasefire halted two years of war there.
The sweeping report, which is more highly detailed than previous assessments conducted during the war, found that the war caused $35.2 billion in physical damage, and it put economic losses — including lost income, displacement-induced costs and more — at an estimated at $22.7 billion.
The total is some $5 billion higher than the last Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment, or RDNA, reported by the World Bank, UN and EU as of October 2024.
Reconstruction in the Strip is largely at a standstill due to the lack of progress toward phase two of the US peace plan, which envisioned the ceasefire reached on October 9, 2025, leading to a transition that will end the Hamas
..a regional Iranian catspaw,...
terror group’s rule of the Strip.
The Israel Defense Forces continues to hold over 50 percent of the enclave’s territory, and has refused to allow most heavy equipment into the part of the Strip outside of its control — where nearly all Gazooks now live — without Hamas first disarming under the plan.
"Economically, the situation in Gaza has not changed since the ceasefire until now," said Saif al-Din Odeh, an economist based in Gaza who previously worked for the Paleostinian Monetary Authority, on the stagnation in the Strip over the past six months.
The study, published April 20, outlines a three-phase reconstruction plan aimed not only at restoring prewar conditions but also at improving governance and service delivery, starting with a focus on food assistance, temporary housing, temporary learning spaces, and field hospitals over the first year and a half. It envisions large-scale rebuilding of housing, healthcare, and education systems over the next 18 months, followed by a two-year process centered on modernization of housing, the health system and education.
The conclusions are based on data collected over the course of the war and since, including satellite-based data collection, social media analysis, Gaza-based engineers, cost assessors and "on-the-ground sources" such as UN agencies, Gaza-based government ministries, humanitarian actors, and civil society organizations. The report’s authors assessed damage estimates based on prewar conditions, but they calculated reconstruction costs that incorporate elements of optimization, improved efficiency and sustainability.
Reconstructing housing is estimated to cost over $16 billion, while rebuilding the agriculture and food system sectors, along with commercial and industrial activity, is estimated to cost another $19.5 billion.
Another $19 billion will be needed to get the health and education systems back on their feet and build out social protections. Infrastructure recovery is estimated at nearly $10 billion more.
According to the report, the housing sector sustained the heaviest damage, with more than 1.2 million Gazooks, roughly 60% of the population, losing their homes amid massive bombardment over two years of war that — unlike earlier, more limited rounds between Hamas and Israel — also targeted high-rise buildings and densely populated urban areas.
"The recent conflict has generated catastrophic destruction of the housing stock," the report noted, tallying the damage to residences at approximately $18 billion, just over half the total cost of physical damage in Gaza.
According to the analysis, 371,888 housing units, representing over three-quarters of Gaza’s housing stock, were directly affected during the war, nearly 85% of which were completely destroyed.
Thanks to efficiencies, the report estimated that rebuilding the housing sector will cost $16.21 billion, which makes it the largest single recovery line item.
Little of that building has begun yet. A March report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) found that some 1.7 million Gazooks are still living in "displacement sites" — tent encampments and temporary structures — and are unable to return to their homes, either because they were destroyed or because they are located in areas of eastern Gaza that remain under IDF control under the October 2025 ceasefire agreement.
"The situation of the displaced is the same as it was [during the war]," said Odeh. "Most people are living in tents because their homes were destroyed."
Some main roads have begun to be cleared in joint projects between local authorities and the International Committee of the Red Thingy, Odeh said.
Social media footage has also shown debris removal efforts in recent months by humanitarian organizations from Qatar
...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...
, Egypt, and The Sick Man of Europe Turkey
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...
Still, clearance efforts remain minimal. "When you’re talking about the rubble of a 15-story building, it’s not simple [to clear] — it takes time and heavy machinery, which is in limited supply," he said. "So they open three or four meters just to allow vehicles to pass, and push the rubble to the center of the road to keep traffic moving."
It is unclear who will pay to rebuild the Strip.
The US in February announced that $17 billion had been pledged for emergency relief and the reconstruction of Gaza through the Washington-led Board of Peace, which is tasked with overseeing the postwar management of Gaza.
This included pledges of $10 billion from the US and roughly $1 billion each from the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Saudi Arabia
 ...a kingdom taking up the bulk of the Arabian peninsula, largely made up of sand and oil rigs. Its primary economic activity involves exporting oil and soaking Islamic rubes on the annual haj pilgrimage. The country supports a large number of princes in whatcha might call princely splendor. Formerly dictatorial and steeped in Olde Tyme Religion, deferring to Salafist holy men on all issues, it has now done a 180 and is making a serious effort to modernize, so as not to be left in the sand by its Gulf Arab neighbors. The holy men have been shoved to the background and the nation is now still dictatorial but somewhat rational. That doesn't make them trustworthy, but it's a start...
and Kuwait.
However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat...
only a tiny fraction of these pledges has been transferred to the Board of Peace as of early May, several officials familiar with the matter have told The Times of Israel. The Board of Peace has adamantly denied funding problems.
Similarly substantial pledges were issued by countries to help rebuild Gaza after previous wars with Israel, which also went largely undelivered, and the Board of Peace now faces the added challenge of international attention shifting away from Gaza just weeks after the February donor conference. Gulf countries that offered the most money were some of the hardest hit during the US-Israel war against Iran
...a theocratic Shiite state divided among the Medes, the Persians, and the (Arab) Elamites. Formerly a fairly civilized nation ruled by a Shah, it became a victim of Islamic revolution in 1979. The nation is today noted for spontaneously taking over other countries' embassies, maintaining whorehouses run by clergymen, involvement in international drug trafficking, and financing sock puppet militias to extend the regime's influence. The word Iran is a cognate form of Aryan. The abbreviation IRGC is the same idea as Stürmabteilung (or SA). The term Supreme Guide is a the modern version form of either Duce or Führer or maybe both. They hate Jews Zionists Jews. Their economy is based on the production of oil and vitriol...
and may choose to shift their financial priorities accordingly.
In a blurb issued alongside the report, the United Nations and the European Union — though not the World Bank — stressed that "recovery and reconstruction efforts should be Paleostinian-led," and that the process should actively support the transfer of governance to the Paleostinian Authority in line with UN Security Council Resolution 2803, which endorsed Trump’s Gaza plan, and advance "a durable political settlement based on the two-state solution."
Under Trump’s plan, a technocratic National Committee for the Administration of Gaza operating under the Board of Peace is supposed to take over running the Strip. However,
there's more than one way to skin a cat...
the panel has yet to enter the Strip, and control of the enclave remains divided between Israel and Hamas.
On Monday, the Board of Peace’s lead envoy for Gaza Nickolay Mladenov was in Israel for talks with brass hats after meeting with Hamas in Cairo, Army Radio reported.
Mladenov was expected to ask for Israel to lift some restrictions on the entry of humanitarian items into Gaza, and to limit its military operations, according to the report.
Mladenov has been holding talks with Hamas leaders for weeks on disarming, but the group has largely bucked the demands to give up all of its weapons.
Instead, the terror group submitted a counter-offer to the Board of Peace, insisting that the issue of its weapons only be addressed as part of a framework culminating in the establishment of a Paleostinian state.
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