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UNDP urges Israeli authorities to grant wider access for Gaza debris removal, housing and private-sector restart
Summary
UNDP Administrator Alexander de Crew, speaking from East Jerusalem, said debris removal is far behind, temporary recovery housing is insufficient and private-sector restart is stalled without greater access; he urged Israeli authorities and international partners to expand material and operational access to Gaza.
UNDP Administrator Alexander de Crew, speaking from East Jerusalem at a United Nations press briefing, urged Israeli authorities to increase access to Gaza to allow accelerated debris removal, delivery of temporary recovery housing units and support for private-sector recovery. He said UNDP teams in Gaza have witnessed "very, very difficult circumstances" and appealed for operational and financial support.
De Crew framed UNDP's recovery work around three priorities: rubble removal, temporary recovery housing and restarting the private sector. "At the current pace, it will take us 7 years to remove all the, all the rubble," he said, adding that UN teams have completed roughly "05%" of rubble removal (transcript phrasing) and that 90% of Gaza residents "live in the middle of that, of that rubble," raising both public-health and explosive-hazard concerns.…
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