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Losses in Gaza strip estimated at $46 million

Welcome to Baqa'a Refugee Camp | 10.09.2006 11:56 | Anti-militarism | Social Struggles | Workers' Movements

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The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) reported that the estimated total cost of the damages in the Gaza Strip assessed for the period between June 28 and August 27, 2006, since the start of Israeli 'Operation Summer Rains' in Gaza, is around $46 million.

In an executive summary of a report on the damages in Gaza, issued Wednesday, the UNDP reported that, in addition to the human toll of 220 Palestinians killed, including 54 children, the ongoing Israeli invasion has resulted in extensive damage to Palestinian infrastructure and economy in the Gaza strip.

UNDP reported that damages across sectors are as follows:

1. Municipal infrastructure (including bridges water and wastewater lines and roads) $8 million

2. Energy (including the electricity lines and power station) $8 million

3. Agriculture (including olives and citrus orchards, greenhouses, poultries and livestock farms, water wells) $ 23.5 million

4. Housing $2 million

5. Public buildings (both governmental and NGO) $4.2 million, and

6. Industry $0.3 million

The UNDP added that the damage estimates per Governorate are:

1. Gaza - $13.5 million

2. Middle - $12 million

3. Rafah - $9.6 million

4. North - $6.6 million

5. Khan Younis - US$ 4.2 millions

The report added that the UNDP's Programme of Assistance to the Palestinian People (PAPP) has begun an extensive damage assessment exercise covering the entire geographic area of the Gaza strip.

UNDP said that the methodology used for assessing the damage in all the sectors, except the agricultural sector, involved site and field visits to every damaged location, assessment of costs and documentation of physical damage.

The assessment of damage to the agricultural sector was done in collaboration with the Palestinian Authority and Agricultural NGO's, followed by independent site visits to validate the data received.

imemc *this article was sourced from the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA


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dan

10.09.2006 19:10

just wondering some questions about islam...

apart from blowing up trains, buses, planes, yousrselves, buildings, murdering children, women, Jews and Christians (referred to as "infidels"); destroying the world trade centre and most unemployed/unemployable people is there anything that the muslims have done to contribute uesfully to society?

Only the muslims justify such disgusting acts of murder and terrorism for their false religion the worship of the pagan g-d allat; where the arabic allah comes from.

Let us destroy this pagan religion, the religion which causes all the problems in the world, from poverty to terrorism, the only religion which justifies murder, rape, suicide because “we are occupied” and “being mistreated because of “islamophobia””

More importantly, if you can think of something that the arabs and muslim arabs have contributed to the world I would please like to know. Don’t say the oil that the filthy arabs sit on because they are too fucking stupid to work out how to refine it; they’re too busy raping their wives and eating lambs they murdered the night before. It was the Americans and yes, the arabs hate to admit, the Jews who created fractional distillation of oil into naptha, kerosine and oil and implemented the factories and refineries in the muslim arab nazi terrorist pig countries. In fact, as Yasser Arafat said “ I am proud for my one true invention. The creation of plane hijackings”. Arabs also have a wonderful mind for blowing up all sorts of transport BUT they also invented sucidie bombing – ingenious! They are sooo clever are’nt they! “It’s because of EEZ—RAAA-ELLL and OOOLLLAH will deal will them” “diii ammmericaaans are infeeedells!!!” as the arabs so often say in the pitiful stupid minds.

PALESTINE HAS NEVER, WILL NEVER EXIST. ISRAEL WILL BE FREE FROM THE RIVER AND TO THE SEA AND AS OVER 6 MAJOR WARS WITH MORE THAN ONE MUSLIM ARAB NAZI TERRORIST ARMY HAS SHOWN, THE JEWS ARE ABLE TO FIGHT THE MUSLIM ENEMY AND DESTROY THE MUSLIM HOPE OF DESTRUCTION OF THE JEWS. ISRAEL WILL BE FREE FROM THE RIVER AND TO THE SEA; DESPITE THE PATHETIC MUSLIMS AND COMMUNISTS WHO THINK OTHERWISE. EVERY WAR, EVERY VICTORY, EVERY INCH OF ISRAELI LAND IS FOR THE JEWS.

AND HENCE NO, THERE IS NO “VICTORY TO THE INITFADA” AS EVERY INTIFADA HAS BEEN CRUSHED. WHETHER IT MEANS BUILDING A WALL OR CRUSHING THEIR PATHETIC CLAY HOMES WE ALWAYS WIN. UNFORTUNATELY THE LEFTIST EHUD SMOLMERT DOES NOT GO FAR ENOUGH TO WIPE THE MUSLIM FILTHY ENEMY OFF THIS PLANET.

SO LETS FACE IT – THESE DISGUSTING PEOPLE NEED TO LEARN THAT WE WANT DEMOCRACY, WE REJECT ISLAM, THE TERRORIST, MURDERING RELIGION.

excuse me don't offend me by pretending you don't know my name


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Plus ca change

11.09.2006 12:19

Release the kidnapped Israeli soldier unharmed and stop firing your missiles (even if they are crap) at civilian targets in Israel.

Yawn


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Oh and one more thing...

11.09.2006 12:20

Stop whining. it's your fault. Terrorism has its price.

Yawn


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