Billions of pounds pledged to rebuild Gaza wasteland/The Telegraph UK [View all]
Good. It's a start.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/gaza/11157343/Hundreds-of-millions-pledged-to-rebuild-Gaza-wasteland.html
International donors have pledged billions of pounds towards reconstruction efforts in Gaza, almost two months after the Palestinian territory was bombarded by a seven week-Israeli attack.
The Palestinian Authority has been promised $5.4bn to rebuild areas turned to rubble in fighting between Hamas and Israel this summer, according to Boerge Brende, Norway's foreign minister.
Clashes and air strikes in the region killed more than 2,100 Palestinians, most of them civilians, 67 Israeli soldiers and six civilians inside Israel. The group had originally requested $4bn to fund reconstruction.
The British government pledged to more than double the amount of money it has donated to reconstruction efforts, offering an additional £20 million to the £17 million already spent since the conflict concluded.
The funds will go towards disposal of unexploded ordnance, rubble clearance programmes and reconstructive surgery for those injured in the fighting.
Their announcement came at an conference held to atttract government donations, during which Qatar said it would be adding $1 billion to the fund and US Secretary of State John Kerry promised a further $212 million.
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