Some Palestinians see little hope for reconstruction in Gaza amid intensifying war in Middle East

Описание: (6 Mar 2026)
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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 4 March 2026
1. Various of destruction across Gaza City
2. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Eissa Khedr, displaced from Jabaliya:
“If you look at the Gaza Strip, it’s filled with tent encampments. And if you look at these encampments, I call them [graves] of neighborhoods. Spacious and vast areas of tent encampments that are in white, blue, and mixed, inside which a man lives with his children. If you open the tent on this man, you’ll find him sad along with the mother and son. There are no bathrooms or beddings or cooking utensils. Everyone is waiting for reconstruction.”
3. Various of hundreds of tent homes for displaced people amid ruins
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khaled Massoud, Gaza City resident:
"Just walking down the street and seeing the destruction makes one feel psychologically distressed. We’re not hopeful that there will be fast reconstruction. There’s no hope.”

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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 4 March 2026
5. Various of destruction
6. Various of woman sitting in room without walls in apartment block
7. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Ammer Khalaf, Khan Younis resident:
”Destruction and we’re living within rubble. There is no reconstruction or any life necessities available. There is no water, electricity, or gas.”
8. Various of destruction
9. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Khaled al-Qadi, Khan Younis resident:
“We fear during these days that if the war expands in Iran and Lebanon. We fear that our issues will be forgotten with Ramadan ending and more winters coming with its coldness, and we’re still homeless living in tents here and there.”
10. Various of destruction
11. Various of people walking near destruction

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Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip – 5 March 2026
12. SOUNDBITE (English) Alessandro Mrakic, Head of Gaza Office, United Nations Development Programme:
"As of today, we’ve collected 500,000 tons of debris. It’s a very tip of the iceberg because the estimate is that in Gaza as of today, we have 61 million tons (of debris). It's a huge number.”

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Khan Younis, Gaza Strip – 4 March 2026
13. Various of destruction

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Deir Al-Balah, Gaza Strip – 5 March 2026
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Alessandro Mrakic, Head of Gaza Office, United Nations Development Programme:
"We’re doing around 4,000 tons of debris daily and then 1,500 tons is crushed, and it is reused for humanitarian purposes; road rehabilitation, paving areas for shelter, for community kitchen, for access for example to water wells.”
15. Various of bulldozer working on site of recycling rubble
16. Various of machine smashing rubble
17. SOUNDBITE (English) Alessandro Mrakic, Head of Gaza Office, United Nations Development Programme:
"We’re looking at new solutions, new innovative solutions on how the debris could be reused for other purposes, including construction purposes that would be essential then for the recovery and reconstruction phase in Gaza.”

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Gaza City, Gaza Strip – 4 March 2026
18. Various of people walking near destruction
19. Various of tents of displaced people near destruction
STORYLINE:
Displaced Palestinians in the war-torn Gaza Strip say they see little hope that reconstruction will begin anytime soon.

The United Nations estimates the entire enclave has more than 61 million tons of debris.

Meanwhile Palestinians continue to live in tents amid the rubble, without access to infrastructure or facilities.



Some fear that the dire humanitarian situation is currently overshadowed by the U.S.-Israel war on Iran.










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