GAZA (PIC)– The UNDP on Thursday said it has cleared a quarter of a million tons of rubble generated in 270 hard-hit locations as a result of the Israeli 2014 summer aggression on the Gaza Strip.
The UNDP stated that it has been removing the debris generated in tattered areas across the war-torn coastal enclave and has so forth successfully removed a quarter million tons of rubble from a total of 270 locations.
The removal of the debris comes as a direct result of the $14-million-deal struck between the UNDP’s Program of Assistance to the Palestinian People and the US Agency for International Development (USAID) Sweden and Japan to remove the rubble generated by the latest Israeli onslaught on the war-torn strip.
As part of the project UNDP has grinded about 60 tons of rubble which would be used in road reconstruction.
UNDP estimates that the 51-day Israeli military onslaught on Gaza resulted in the total destruction of 18000 Palestinian housing units and the displacement of at least 108000 civilians.
An Israeli 51-day offensive on the blockaded coastal enclave last summer took away the lives of over 2323 Palestinians mostly women and children and reduced thousands of civilian homes to rubble.
