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More than 90 percent of the Gaza Strip has been destroyed, and Israeli forces control 80 percent of the besieged areas, the enclave’s government officials say, as the world commemorates 1,000 days since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.
Estimating the amount of damage since Israel launched its war on October 7, 2023, the Gaza Media Office said. words Thursday that approximately 73,066 Palestinians have been killed in the enclave.
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More than 21,500 of those killed in Gaza were children, including 1,022 infants, it added. A further 9,500 people are missing, most believed to have been buried in the debris, while 173,514 have been injured.
It also said that about 223,000 tons of explosives were dropped by Israel on Gaza during the war – 16 times more than what the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, in 1945 with an atomic bomb.
With the many ruins of Gaza, “ceasefire” plan. the goal of resolving the dispute is still in disarray six months after its central organization was established.
The A peace organization created by the USwhich was launched in January to oversee a “ceasefire” and facilitate reconstruction under a three-phase plan approved by the United Nations Security Council, has failed to get Israel to comply, analysts said. Instead of withdrawing slowly as the plan sees it, Israel has expanded its control over Gaza, and a third of the aid trucks it offered to replace it every day are entering.
Israeli forces have also killed more than 1,000 Palestinians since then The October Agreement it became operational last year.
“There are no shared plans or even a shared vision,” another expert, Iyad Jouda, told Al Jazeera, adding that the organization “has moved away from its main goal”, which is to “unify the Gaza Strip and the West Bank”. The organization is also financially strapped as billions of dollars in pledges have yet to be delivered.
All the people of Gaza are high risk of starvation with about 400,000 people surviving on one meal a day and 62 percent of medical supplies have run out. The UN said that human development in Gaza has been restored in 77 years and life expectancy has dropped to 40.
The extent of the destruction has left about 68 million tons of debris. Only about 310,000 tons, less than 0.5 percent, have been removed, according to the UN, a pace that would take more than 140 years to complete.
“We have lost about 85 to 90 percent of our property, our houses and our equipment,” Gaza City Mayor Yahya al-Sarraj told Al Jazeera “We hear the disabled many times.”
He said that the municipality has developed a plan to rebuild, the “Phoenix Plan”, and that once the borders are opened, “people here will not wait and will start building their own houses.”
Negotiations on the next phase are still tentative, especially on Israel’s demand for Hamas to disarm before it takes place.
“Stop the project first, then weapons can be discussed,” Nasser Faram, a former detainee, told Al Jazeera while another Gaza resident, Hassan Sharaf, said weapons “must be under the authority of a legitimate governing body”.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said at the end of a meeting that took place on Monday evening with Alon Davidi, the mayor of the southern city of Sderot: “We must finish conquering the remaining area, defeat Hamas and establish a belt of Jewish villages that will act as a defense for Sderot and the border areas of Gaza.”
“Where there is no stability, there is no security. We are not going back to the reality of October 7” two years and nine months ago.
In Israel on Thursday, commemorations took place 1,000 days since the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas in southern Israel.
Demonstrations and demonstrations were held across the country organized by the October Council, a group of bereaved families of former slaves. They displayed a sign counting “1,000 days of abandonment, neglect, cover-up and failure” and accused the Israeli government of preventing an independent investigation into its security failures. Protesters also tried to disrupt access to the Knesset.
Five thousand Israelis will move to the southern areas near Gaza starting October 7, 2023, The Times of Israel reported.
About 62,000 people lived there before the war. About 90 percent of the residents have returned, and the Israeli government aims to have 124,000 residents there by 2030.
