Israel’s war in Gaza has created a “human-made abyss”, and reconstruction is likely to cost more than $70bn (£53bn) over several decades, the United Nations has said.

The UN’s trade and development agency (Unctad) said in a report that Israel’s military operations had “significantly undermined every pillar of survival” and that the entire population of 2.3 million people faced “extreme, multidimensional impoverishment”.

 

The report also found that “violence, accelerated settlement expansion and restrictions on worker mobility” had “decimated the economy” in the West Bank.

“Plummeting revenues and the withholding of fiscal transfers by the Israeli government have severely constrained the Palestinian government’s ability to maintain essential public services and invest in recovery,” it said. “This comes at a critical time when massive spending is needed to rebuild shattered infrastructure and address worsening environmental and socioeconomic crises.”

 

“Even with substantial aid, recovery to pre-October 2023 GDP levels could take decades'' There is little clarity about how the challenges of implementing the more immediate requirements of Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza will be met, let alone longer-term questions of reconstruction.

 

Rebuilding ‘human-made abyss’ in Gaza will cost at least $70bn, UN says

 

Destruction in northern Gaza, as seen from Israel in May. Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters© Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters

 

Maybe they should try peace for a change.

Maybe Israel should try and respect cease fires.

 

Maybe Israel should try to explain to the world, how you save hostages by flattening every single building they could possibly be held in.

 

Maybe the world should try to explain to Israel to pay for the mess they caused without a real cause.

On 11/25/2025 at 9:26 AM, bannork said:

Israel’s war in Gaza has created a “human-made abyss”, and reconstruction is likely to cost more than $70bn (£53bn) over several decades, the United Nations has said.

The UN’s trade and development agency (Unctad) said in a report that Israel’s military operations had “significantly undermined every pillar of survival” and that the entire population of 2.3 million people faced “extreme, multidimensional impoverishment”.

 

The report also found that “violence, accelerated settlement expansion and restrictions on worker mobility” had “decimated the economy” in the West Bank.

“Plummeting revenues and the withholding of fiscal transfers by the Israeli government have severely constrained the Palestinian government’s ability to maintain essential public services and invest in recovery,” it said. “This comes at a critical time when massive spending is needed to rebuild shattered infrastructure and address worsening environmental and socioeconomic crises.”

 

“Even with substantial aid, recovery to pre-October 2023 GDP levels could take decades'' There is little clarity about how the challenges of implementing the more immediate requirements of Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza will be met, let alone longer-term questions of reconstruction.

 

Rebuilding ‘human-made abyss’ in Gaza will cost at least $70bn, UN says

 

Destruction in northern Gaza, as seen from Israel in May. Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters© Photograph: Amir Cohen/Reuters

 

Hasmas war has created a “human-made abyss”, and reconstruction is likely to cost more than $70bn (£53bn) over several decades, the United Nations has said.

 

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I fixed it for you. 

4 minutes ago, Somjot said:

Maybe Israel should try and respect cease fires.

 

Maybe Israel should try to explain to the world, how you save hostages by flattening every single building they could possibly be held in.

 

Maybe the world should try to explain to Israel to pay for the mess they caused without a real cause.

Did Hamas have anything to do with this war? 

5 minutes ago, TedG said:

Did Hamas have anything to do with this war? 

 

Thanks for bringing that up.

 

Hamas gave Israel the excuse to start the mass slaughter and destruction.

 

Let`s forget for a minute, that Israel did not really have to flatten Gaza, that Hamas had no say in their decision to do it and that normally other methods are implied if you want to save the life of hostages, who were actually kept in the area they pulverized, but Hamas was founded and funded with the active support of Bibi Netanyahu.

 

So the bill goes to ...... Israel.

I wonder if the leftists on this site will send in a donation to help with the rebuilding of a country that they really never cared about or concerned themselves with until it became fashionable.

 

Same same Ukraine.

 

Yawn.

1 minute ago, Airalee said:

I wonder if the leftists on this site will send in a donation to help with the rebuilding of a country that they really never cared about or concerned themselves with until it became fashionable.

 

Same same Ukraine.

 

Yawn.

Strange that you think only 'leftists' support Ukraine.

 

Overall, six in 10 Americans continue to support the United States sending arms and military supplies to Kyiv (62%, up from 52% in March) and providing economic assistance to Ukraine (61%, up from 55% in March)

The most substantial shifts are among Republicans (+9 percentage points for economic assistance, +21 military aid) and Independents (+7 economic, +10 military). In fact, 51 percent of Republicans now support providing military aid to Ukraine.

Large majorities of both Republicans (74%) and Democrats (77%) support increasing sanctions against Russia.

 

https://globalaffairs.org/research/public-opinion-survey/dramatic-rise-republican-support-ukraine

This rebuilding sounds like a perfect job for Elon's robots.

 

Or, I have a better idea.

 

Why not just send ....Benji out into the hot sun....

 

To clean up the MESS he has made.

 

Let him feel the heat and the impact of the terror he has wrought....

 

FIRST HAND

 

Soon, he will be dead.

He cannot live forever, can he?

 

However, while he is still alive...

He must be made to FEEL the torture of his actions.

 

Is he a Psychopath?

Who knows.

Certainly many of his kind truly are.

 

Do we even need to test him for Psychopathy in order to probably know the real truth about him?

 

 

26 minutes ago, Somjot said:

 

Thanks for bringing that up.

 

Hamas gave Israel the excuse to start the mass slaughter and destruction.

 

Let`s forget for a minute, that Israel did not really have to flatten Gaza, that Hamas had no say in their decision to do it and that normally other methods are implied if you want to save the life of hostages, who were actually kept in the area they pulverized, but Hamas was founded and funded with the active support of Bibi Netanyahu.

 

So the bill goes to ...... Israel.

Nah....the lesson in all this is don't start wars. 

17 minutes ago, bannork said:

Strange that you think only 'leftists' support Ukraine.

 

Overall, six in 10 Americans continue to support the United States sending arms and military supplies to Kyiv (62%, up from 52% in March) and providing economic assistance to Ukraine (61%, up from 55% in March)

The most substantial shifts are among Republicans (+9 percentage points for economic assistance, +21 military aid) and Independents (+7 economic, +10 military). In fact, 51 percent of Republicans now support providing military aid to Ukraine.

Large majorities of both Republicans (74%) and Democrats (77%) support increasing sanctions against Russia.

 

https://globalaffairs.org/research/public-opinion-survey/dramatic-rise-republican-support-ukraine

Nobody cares.   It’s great to use it to virtue signal though.

 

You should send all the poor Muslim boys pink guitars.   I bet they’ll really appreciate it.

Dont bother  ,, the muslims  will only <deleted> up again and make another <deleted>hole and breed more terrorists use the money to help Sudan or ukraine 

6 minutes ago, liddelljohn said:

Dont bother  ,, the muslims  will only <deleted> up again and make another <deleted>hole and breed more terrorists use the money to help Sudan or ukraine 

True, these Palestinians lack the chops to build a stable society. 

2 hours ago, Airalee said:

Nobody cares.   It’s great to use it to virtue signal though.

 

You should send all the poor Muslim boys pink guitars.   I bet they’ll really appreciate it.

Good to see you can't answer facts. 

I'd better repeat them for you-

Overall, six in 10 Americans continue to support the United States sending arms and military supplies to Kyiv (62%, up from 52% in March) and providing economic assistance to Ukraine (61%, up from 55% in March)

The most substantial shifts are among Republicans (+9 percentage points for economic assistance, +21 military aid) and Independents (+7 economic, +10 military). In fact, 51 percent of Republicans now support providing military aid to Ukraine.

Large majorities of both Republicans (74%) and Democrats (77%) support increasing sanctions against Russia.

 

https://globalaffairs.org/research/public-opinion-survey/dramatic-rise-republican-support-ukraine

1 hour ago, bannork said:

Good to see you can't answer facts. 

I'd better repeat them for you-

Overall, six in 10 Americans continue to support the United States sending arms and military supplies to Kyiv (62%, up from 52% in March) and providing economic assistance to Ukraine (61%, up from 55% in March)

The most substantial shifts are among Republicans (+9 percentage points for economic assistance, +21 military aid) and Independents (+7 economic, +10 military). In fact, 51 percent of Republicans now support providing military aid to Ukraine.

Large majorities of both Republicans (74%) and Democrats (77%) support increasing sanctions against Russia.

 

https://globalaffairs.org/research/public-opinion-survey/dramatic-rise-republican-support-ukraine

Awesome!

 

Are you watching it on pay per view?

4 hours ago, TedG said:

Nah....the lesson in all this is don't start wars. 

 

So you are saying if someone would take your loved ones as hostages and hide with them somewhere in a residential building you would just blow up the whole building, then walk over the rubbles, the shredded locals and your dead or fatally injured loved ones until you get to the bad guy, who is in his last gasps and just tell him:

 

"the lesson in all this is don't start wars."

 

or maybe even "next time better don`t poke the bear" ? 

 

Really?

4 hours ago, TedG said:

True, these Palestinians lack the chops to build a stable society. 

 

Well they had one stable society, not country, under Ottoman rule and that was quiet stable for about a Millenia, give or take, where all religions lived next to each other peacefully most of the time.

 

Then the Jews came, created their ethno state, stole the land, keep stealing it until today and complain about lack of stability.

19 minutes ago, Somjot said:

 

Well they had one stable society, not country, under Ottoman rule and that was quiet stable for about a Millenia, give or take, where all religions lived next to each other peacefully most of the time.

 

Then the Jews came, created their ethno state, stole the land, keep stealing it until today and complain about lack of stability.

They were ruled.  Then the Ottoman Empire collapsed.   Since that time history proves they need to be ruled again since they can’t govern themselves.

31 minutes ago, Somjot said:

 

So you are saying if someone would take your loved ones as hostages and hide with them somewhere in a residential building you would just blow up the whole building, then walk over the rubbles, the shredded locals and your dead or fatally injured loved ones until you get to the bad guy, who is in his last gasps and just tell him:

 

"the lesson in all this is don't start wars."

 

or maybe even "next time better don`t poke the bear" ? 

 

Really?

I’d make Gaza look like Tokyo after the B29s flew over.

1 hour ago, TedG said:

I’d make Gaza look like Tokyo after the B29s flew over.

 

You should have been there, back then.

 

This way, you would have been able to truly appreciate the fire-bombing of Tokyo...

As you should.

 

And, it's really not too late for you, because....

 

Perhaps, some day soon, 

If all goes according to plan....

 

You, TOO, may enjoy a bit of firebombing....

If you live long enough.

 

Wait and see.....

 

 

20 hours ago, TedG said:

They were ruled.  Then the Ottoman Empire collapsed.   Since that time history proves they need to be ruled again since they can’t govern themselves.

 

You cannot possibly know that, as they never got the chance to govern themselves in their own country.

 

Well, actually they did. The UN partition plan which was a two state solution so that both people could govern themselves in independent states.

 

Only that the Jews and their "government" happily accepted the plan but then but then took way more land than had been assigned to them, created Israel, stole more land after the 6-day-war they started and kept stealing land and since then, even doing it right now, making sure, there will never be a Palestinian state.

 

And by the way, the Ottomans ruled the Palestinians, Israel oppresses and regularly murders them and keeps stealing their land.

 

But you knew all that.

 

And still support the oppressors.

 

My question to you was:

 

21 hours ago, Somjot said:

So you are saying if someone would take your loved ones as hostages and hide with them somewhere in a residential building you would just blow up the whole building (and kill not only the bad guys but the innocent residents and your own loved ones too)?

 

You answered:

 

21 hours ago, TedG said:

I’d make Gaza look like Tokyo after the B29s flew over.

 

Why do you mean by that?

 

That if your loved ones would currently be in Gaza, you`d happily see them burn? 

 

Because in my thought experiment I did not specify the location, when I wrote "somewhere in a residential building".

 

So if they were taken hostage in any other place you would act differently? And if so, why?

 

Please explain.

 

 

 

 

Or are you avoiding my question

 

 

 

 

 

4 hours ago, Somjot said:

You cannot possibly know that, as they never got the chance to govern themselves in their own country.

 

Bull<deleted>, they had the chance to self-govern, and they voted for Hamas.  

On 11/28/2025 at 1:02 AM, liddelljohn said:

Dont bother  ,, the muslims  will only <deleted> up again and make another <deleted>hole and breed more terrorists use the money to help Sudan or ukraine 

The majority of Sudanese are Muslim.