Rebuilding the Gaza Strip is in its early stages, and daily truckloads of cement and iron are entering the Gaza Strip. All parties declare that they have established a mechanism to prevent construction materials from reaching Hamas, but it is unclear whether Hamas found ways around this. “I have my doubts, but I hope that I am wrong. We have no control over what happens a meter over the border, but we invested a lot of effort in creating the mechanism,” said Director of Kerem Shalom, Ami Shaked. Shaked has witnessed the rehabilitation after two previous rounds of fighting, suggesting that the flow of cement into Gaza is what it needs to recover from what happened to in recent years. We are only at the initial stage of rehabilitation of the Gaza Strip, it will take several years. A Palestinian worker named Ibrahim reinforced his speech: the city has not changed and not one this has been built, it is all empty rhetoric.” More than 10,500 homes were destroyed in Operation Protective Edge, infrastructure collapsed, and towers were bombed. The world promised 5.5 billion dollars, but Gaza has not seen a penny and a hundred thousand residents are still homeless. If you leave the Gazans as refugees, the chance that they will be ready to be a martyr and be harnessed to Hamas or ISIS, who is beginning to enter the Gaza Strip will be much bigger, said Major General Doron Almog, former commander of the Southern Command. According to Almog, the risk of transmission of building materials is worthy - If they choose a second round, we are much more powerful.” A similar message was made by Osama Kahil, deputy chairman of the Gaza Builders Association, who warned against despair in the streets. If things stay the same, I expect a war against Israel, he said. The war will be repeated for sure without relief to the Gaza Strip, even within three months.” “People are selling the concrete because they have nothing to eat”
Posted on: Sat, 20 Dec 2014 10:47:55 +0000
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