The British newspaper The Guardian introduces readers to a UN estimate, according to which, after the end of military actions, 40 million tons of construction waste resulting from the destruction of buildings and infrastructure will have to be removed from the Gaza Strip.
It will take 100 trucks about 15 years to remove it. The cost of this operation will be 500-600 million dollars. It will be necessary to equip special landfills with an area of up to 500 hectares, where the waste will be disposed of.
The publication cites a UN Environment Programme report, published in June 2024 but which received little attention, which said that a full recovery of the sector would take at least until 2040 and would cost $40 billion.
According to the agency, 137,297 buildings were damaged, which is half of all buildings in Gaza. A quarter of these houses were completely destroyed, a tenth suffered significant damage, and a third suffered moderate damage.
It is claimed that the Strip’s infrastructure has been set back 44 years and that Israeli bombing was so intense that it changed the landscape.