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Handelsblatt · 2024-10-15
Omar Shaban says rebuilding the Gaza Strip will be an enormous task economically and politically, and he is already considering what should happen after the war once the territory becomes calm again. According to the World Bank, damage caused by Israel’s military campaign amounts to 30 to 40 billion dollars, while clearing roughly 40 million tonnes of rubble could take many years and cost 650 million dollars; unexploded bombs and thousands of bodies beneath the debris could mean reconstruction lasts for many years, even decades.
Omar Shaban says rebuilding the Gaza Strip will be an enormous task economically and politically, and he is already considering what should happen after the war once the territory becomes calm again. According to the World Bank, damage caused by Israel’s military campaign amounts to 30 to 40 billio…
Tel Aviv. Omar Shaban knows that rebuilding the Gaza Strip will be a tremendous task: economically and politically. The economist from Gaza, who founded the think tank PalThink for Strategic Studies, is therefore already considering how his homeland could move forward after the war. And what must happen once the coastal strip finally comes to rest.
According to the World Bank, the damage caused by Israel’s military campaign amounts to 30 to 40 billion dollars. The cleanup efforts alone could, according to current estimates, take many years and cost 650 million dollars. For the war has left behind around 40 million tons of rubble, Shaban says. Enough to fill New York’s Central Park to a depth of eight meters.
“Beneath the ruins are thousands of unexploded bombs and other remnants of the war that could detonate at any moment,” says Shaban. In addition, “several thousand bodies” must be recovered from the rubble. Reconstruction could take “several years, even decades.”
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