UN Says Countries Are Willing to Help Fund Gaza's $70 Billion Reconstruction
Heavy machinery drives through a street, amid a ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, in Gaza City, October 14, 2025. (Reuters/Ebrahim Hajjaj)
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There are promising early indications from countries, including the United States as well as Arab and European states, about their willingness to contribute to the $70 billion cost of rebuilding Gaza, a United Nations Development Program official said on Tuesday.
“We’ve had very good indications already,” UNDP’s Jaco Cilliers told reporters at a press conference in Geneva, without giving details. He estimated that the two-year Israel-Hamas war had generated at least 55 million tons of rubble.
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(Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Madeline Chambers)
