Global & Disaster Medicine

Gaza: Gazans are rebuilding after living through wars, but after so many years of isolation, residents of Gaza find themselves ever further from Palestinians in the West Bank, their future clouded by rising doubts that they could ever unite and work toward a lasting peace.

NY Times

  • Two million tons of rubble have been cleared
  • Two-thirds of the 160,000 damaged homes have been rebuilt
  • Half of the 11,000 homes that were destroyed have been rebuilt
  • Roads are better, travel faster.
  • The first real mall, with a food court and 12 escalators
  • Unemployment is high, especially among the many young people graduating from college.
  • 50,000 people remain displaced.
  • Electricity and water supplies are still near crisis levels.
  • Tunnel building goes on


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