The AP signed an agreement with the UN for the withdrawal of rubble and the construction of shelters in Gaza

The Palestinian Authority has signed on Monday a memorandum of understanding with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and the International Arab Organization for the reconstruction of Palestine in order to carry out debris withdrawal and construction of shelters in the strip of Gaza, the first of this type from Alto El Fuego between Israel and the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), in force since January 19.

The agreement, signed in the office of the Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohamad Mustafa, in the West Bank City of Ramela, has a value of 80 million dollars (about 77.5 million euros) in its first phase and will be executed under the supervision of the Ministry of Public Works and Housing and the Arab and Islamic Authority of Funds.

Mustafa stressed that “the Palestinian government has launched a six -month program to address the situation on the ground, together with a three -year plan to move from help, recovery and economic revitalization to a large -scale reconstruction For the next ten years as part of a program coordinated with the World Bank, the European Union and the UN. ”

“This program is part of our exhaustive plan and is significant because it marks the first large -scale intervention launched to directly apply a series of important interventions related to the continued existence of life and the restoration of Gaza’s vitality, In particular, regarding temporary housing, debris withdrawal and restoration of basic services, “he explained.

In this sense, he has deepened that this program “includes a commitment of 80 million dollars to finance multiple vital programs that will be launched,” the Wafa news agency reported. “We are adopting real and practical steps on the ground from day one, supported by our Arab brothers and our UN colleagues,” he defended.

“We hope that these efforts will be transferred to tangible results on the land, that relieve the suffering of our people and give hope to continue and that life returns to normal, with the reconstruction of Gaza,” said Prime Minister Palestinians, who also leads the exterior portfolio.

“Our people want to live in their land, remain in their land, end the occupation and materialize the independent state of Palestine. We ask the world to support our people in this mission,” Mustafa has settled, in apparent reference to the plans Presented by the president of the United States, Donald Trump, for the forced expulsion of much of the population of Gaza.

Trump has stated that more than 1.5 million Palestinians be transferred to Egypt and Jordan and has even said that Washington could take control of the enclave, something rejected frontally by the Palestinian authority, Hamas and the countries of the region , that they have even warned that it could assume an ethnic limpeizer and that they have opted to materialize the solution of two states.