(22 Oct 2024)
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Cairo, Egypt – 22 October 2024
1. Wide of Arab League meeting on impact of Gaza war
2. Various of meeting
3. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hossam Zaki, Assistant Secretary General of the Arab League:
"This report comes after more than a year of the genocide war against Gaza which has caused catastrophic damage to all vital sectors of the occupied Palestinian territory, including the sectors of health, infrastructure and education. And, as much as this war has killed of thousands of civilians, it has also deliberately destroyed Palestinian society and economy, leaving a great effect on the lives of civilians."
4. Wide of meeting
5. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Tarik Alami, leader of the Governance and Conflict Prevention Cluster of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA):
"The humanitarian situation in Gaza is continuously worsening on an unprecedented scale. More than 70% of the civilian infrastructure is destroyed or damaged, as it was targeted. This includes houses, roads, hospitals, schools, water and sanitation facilities. The expected cost to fix the direct damage that affected the infrastructure in Gaza is more than $18.5 billion, which equals around 97% of the total GDP of the year 2022."
6. Wide of speakers
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdallah Al Dardari, Assistant Secretary-General and Regional Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP):
"Gaza has been set back in the Human Development Index (HDI) as much as 69 years and the whole Palestinian state has been set back as much as 24 years, meaning that all development achievements of the past 24 years have vanished."
8. Wide of meeting
9. Various of press conference held after meeting
10. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Abdallah Al Dardari, Assistant Secretary-General and Regional Director of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP):
"For the UNDP only, we are doing nine different activities today in Gaza and also the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Today, we need $280 million to complete our ongoing activities, not for reconstruction or recovery costs, this will go in the fields of securing drinking water, sanitation, solid waste, starting to clear rubble, dealing with bodies under rubble and securing the minimum limit of funds for small and medium businesses in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza. This amount of money is not available."
11. Wide of meeting
STORYLINE:
A new report by the United Nations says the ongoing war in Gaza has set back development in the enclave by nearly 70 years.
"Gaza has been set back in the Human Development Index (HDI) as much as 69 years and the whole Palestinian state has been set back as much as 24 years," said Abdallah Al Dardari, Assistant Secretary-General and Regional Director of UNDP.
"Meaning that all development achievements of the past 24 years have vanished," he added at a meeting in Cairo to discuss the report’s findings.
The report is the third socioeconomic assessment of the impacts of the Gaza war and is a collaboration between the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The report comes as the Gaza Strip lies in ruins after Israel’s yearlong offensive.
With no end in sight to the war and no plan for the day after, it is impossible to say when – or even if – anything will be rebuilt.
ESCWA’s leader of the Governance and Conflict Prevention Cluster, Tarik Alami, said the estimated cost to fix direct damage to Gaza’s infrastructure is more than $18.5 billion.
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