Comment by bjourne

2 years ago

> Buildings and temporary displacement inside the Strip aren't interesting - some Gulf states will cover reconstruction, and the royal houses will have a few less yachts.

Well, the only way to claim something absolutely idiotic like that is to have absolutely no clue:

During the fifty days of Operation Protective Edge in the summer of 2014, Israel bombed and shelled the Gaza Strip, causing massive damage to civilian infrastructure and homes. About 18,000 residential units were either completely destroyed or heavily damaged, leaving more than 100,000 Palestinians – some 17,000 families – homeless. [...] Today, more than four years later, about 20% of the homes are still unusable and some 2,300 families – about 13,000 people – remain homeless. Some 1,600 of these families had been receiving rent subsidies from UNRWA at rates ranging from 200 to 250 USD per month, depending on the size of the family. In July 2018, however, following US funding cuts, UNRWA was forced to halt financial assistance, leaving families out in the cold. Families that are still renting are having trouble making payments.

https://www.btselem.org/gaza_strip/20190303_13000_gazans_hom...

The Gulf states you think are generous have changed their allegiances and are now Israel's friends. The current Israeli government has radicalized even further since 2014 and revel in the suffering of Palestinians and will likely prevent any future reconstruction efforts.

The number of refugees from Ukraine is 6.3 million or 14% with up to 30% of its infrastructure damaged. This is less destruction in TWO YEARS than Israel has inflicted in 60 DAYS.

https://data.unhcr.org/en/situations/ukraine https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/exclusive-russian-invas...

I don't think there's much comparison between 2014 and 2023 given high international profile. Turkey already promised to pitch in[0] and I'd surprised if others won't follow. I'd rather put the focus on people and not buildings anyway.

[0] https://bnn.network/politics/erdogan-pledges-to-rebuild-gaza...

P.S. What you wrote about Ukraine just confirms what I wrote above.

  • I'm sorry but you don't know what you are talking about. Pledges are cheap, actually paying up the billions required to rebuild Gaza is a different matter. Yeah, we can focus on the death toll alone, but you are still wrong. 17k mostly civilians in 60 days of warfare is unprecedented in recent years.