Who will rebuild the Gaza Strip? And what obstacles stand in the way?
By The Washington Post
By Antonia Noori Farzan
Gaza Strip residents took to the streets in celebration Friday - or to let out a sigh of relief - as a cease-fire with Israel brought an end to 11 days of bombardment. In Israel, too, there was hope the truce would stick and end rocket barrages from Gaza.
But the tasks ahead for Gaza is far more daunting. Thousands of homes and businesses were destroyed in the latest conflict with Israel. Also damaged: Gaza s water and power infrastructure.
Here s what the recovery efforts will entail, and the hurdles that have complicated rebuilding in the past.
Aid arrives in Gaza as truce ends 11 days of violence
9 hours ago The UN s Central Emergency Response Fund said its first aid convoys were to pass into Gaza as early as Friday evening.
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Thousands of displaced Palestinians started returning to their homes in the bomb-shattered Gaza Strip on Friday, while Israelis returned to normal life as a ceasefire appeared to hold after 11 days of deadly fighting.
But in Jerusalem, Israeli police cracked down on stone-throwing protesters at the highly sensitive Al-Aqsa mosque compound, two weeks after similar clashes sparked the conflict s worst escalation in years.
Israeli forces beat an AFP photographer who was covering the unrest there.
Children make grim game of climbing over rubble of homes
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May 22, 2021 â 3.36pm
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Advertisement Gaza City: As the bombs stopped falling on Gaza for the first time in 11 days , Palestinian father Bassam Abdelaziz Al-Nabahin was counting the cost of yet another round of fighting between Israel and the Palestinian militants that run the besieged enclave.
Al-Nabahin was sheltering at Al-Shati school in northern Gaza, where he had taken his four sons, two daughters and wife seven nights earlier, as Israeli artillery and missiles landed around their home.
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The first convoys of humanitarian aid have arrived in Gaza, hours after a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants came into effect.
Thousands of Palestinians returned home to scenes of devastation with officials saying reconstruction might take years.
The World Health Organization (WHO) called for the creation of corridors for injured people to be evacuated.
More than 250 people were killed in the 11-day conflict, most of them in Gaza. Both Israel and Hamas claimed victory.
In southern Israel, residents celebrated the truce but many expressed concern that another conflict in the region was just a matter of time.
Trucks from various aid agencies, including those affiliated with the United Nations, started bringing much-needed medicine, food and fuel into Gaza, after Israel reopened the Kerem Shalom crossing.
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Tel Aviv – The first convoys of humanitarian aid have arrived in Gaza, hours after a ceasefire between Israel and Palestinian militants came into effect.
Thousands of Palestinians returned home to scenes of devastation with officials saying reconstruction might take years.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) called for the creation of corridors for injured people to be evacuated.
More than 250 people were killed in the 11-day conflict, most of them in Gaza. Both Israel and Hamas claimed victory.
In southern Israel, residents celebrated the truce but many expressed concern that another conflict in the region was just a matter of time.