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I hope I can bring them out and make them a grave. That's all I want from this entire world. I don’t want them to build me a house or give me anything else. All I want is a grave for them - to get them out and make them a grave,
said Abu Dalfa
I know where Ashraf is buried, but his body is with dozens of others, there is no grave for him, there is no tomb stone that carries his name,
he said via a chat app from Gaza City
The billions of dollars that will need to be mobilized for even early recovery work and then in the longer term for reconstruction will be in the tens of billions,
said Steiner
We put an estimate of 60 plus years of development lost. 67% of the infrastructure is either damaged or destroyed,
he told DW in an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos, SwitzerlandThere is still a great deal of nervousness,
Steiner pointed outIf you look at the trauma that people have lived through, it is not only the physical infrastructure that has suffered enormous damage. People have lost tens of thousands of relatives,
he saidI think Israel, as in any conflict, has to be a good faith negotiating partner,
he saidWe are dealing with a situation where most Gazans will return to either a heavily damaged building they cannot move into or simply a pile of rubble. That rubble is still dangerous. Not only are there potentially bodies that have never been evacuated, there is also unexploded ordnance, landmines. It's an extremely toxic environment,
he saidMy children are still under the rubble. I am trying to get them out... The civil defence came, they tried, but the destruction makes it difficult. We don't have the equipment here to extract martyrs. We need excavators and a lot of technical tools,
Abu Dalfa told Reuters
My wife was killed along with all my five children - three daughters and two sons. I had triplets,
he saidIsrael's offensive caused the death or disappearance of over 5,000 people and injured around 13,000, with more than 200,000 displaced,
Badwan said
The devastation is absolute, affecting homes, streets and infrastructure, making northern Gaza uninhabitable,
Sarhan saidPeople go to see the ruins of their homes and then return to their tents heartbroken. The destruction is beyond us. No camera lens can capture the barbarity.”
One relative shared
I mean, we have been relieved by the ceasefire, but at the same time, we are still searching for our martyrs and searching for our graves and can’t find them,
Jundiya told ReutersWhen I went into the camp, I teared up, as our camp was not like that, it was the best. When we left all the towers (and) homes were still untouched, and none of the neighbours had been killed,
she lamentedI have been searching and looking for my father’s grave, my brother’s grave and my brother’s wife’s grave, and I can’t find them,
Atef Jundiya, said at the cemetery in Gaza CityWe are cleaning the house, and removing the rubble, so we are able to return home. Those are the quilts, pillows, nothing was left at the house,
said Palestinian woman Walaa El-Err, pointing to her destroyed belongings at her bombed-out home in Nuseirat, a decades-old refugee camp in central GazaI heard the area was hit hard and the house could have been gone, but I was driven by both doubt and hope that it could have been saved,
she told Reuters via a chat appThey (Gazans) are able to return home. ...It's a bit of a stretch of the imagination, I would say, to call it homes, because mostly, particularly in the north, it's mountains of rubble that they find. So they need help with that,
Jens Laerke, spokesperson for the U.N. office for the Coordination of Humanitarian affairs, told a Geneva press briefing on TuesdayWhat I found wasn't just a house, it is the box of memories, where I had my children, celebrated their birthday parties, made them food, and taught them their first words and moves,
she said