The United Nations Development Program announced yesterday, Thursday, that 50% of the housing stock in Gaza was destroyed in one month as a result of the ongoing Israeli aggression since last October 7, which led to the death of more than 11,000 people, most of whom were women and children.
This came in a press conference held by Abdullah Al-Dardari, Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations, Director of the Regional Office for Arab States at the United Nations Development Programme, and Rula Dashti, Secretary-General of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA).
The conference was held under the title "The Gaza War...The expected social and economic repercussions on the State of Palestine."
Al-Dardari reported that 50% of the housing stock in Gaza was destroyed in just one month, and pointed out, for comparison, that Syria lost this percentage of housing stock in its fourth year of war.
In turn, Dashti said that the destruction in Gaza has reached an unprecedented level, and pointed out that 96% of Gazans who cannot access basic services are now suffering from multidimensional poverty.
Dashti stressed the need for the international community to come together to establish lasting peace.
