07/05/2026
The Gaza Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment by EU/UN/World Bank shows that USD$71.4 billion is the estimated amount for short-term recovery in Gaza. That is the equivalent of Slovenia’s GDP.
❌ USD$18billion in damages to homes the equivalent of the total annual housing spending of the UK Government.
371,888 (76.6% of residential houses) homes destroyed or damaged.
❌ USD$1.08 billion in damages to the education system, with more than 1,300 buildings destroyed and more than 880 partially damaged. Thousands of students and educators have been massacred.
❌ USD$565.3 million in damages because of the deliberate bombing to energy infrastructures energy sector, harming all essential services such as healthcare, water desalination, wastewater treatment, and telecommunications.
❌ US$1.7 billion of damages to the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene infrastructure.
❌ USD$1.44 billion in the collapse of the food production and market infrastructure. More than 95% of agriculture infrastructure including cropland, greenhouses, irrigation networks and wells, storage and processing facilities, markets and bakeries, solar installations, etc. have been destroyed. 96% of cropland is damaged, inaccessible, or both.
The EU-UN-World Bank presents this data as a “humanitarian crisis”, failing to point to the colonial and political causes of this massive destruction: Zionism impunity.
Behind these numbers are 2 million Palestinians, denied their most fundamental right to life.
Gaza recovery and reconstruction must be rooted in
✅ Palestinian agency and dignity
✅Return
✅Reparations