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World Health Organization says at least $10 billion needed to rebuild Gaza’s health system over 5-7 years
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Palestinians inspect the rubble of buildings hit in Israeli strikes the previous night in Jabalia in the northern Gaza Strip, on January 16, 2025. (Omar al-Qattaa/AFP)
GENEVA – At least $10 billion will likely be needed to rebuild Gaza’s devastated health system over the next five to seven years, according to an initial World Health Organization assessment.
“The needs are massive,” the UN health agency’s representative in the Palestinian territories, Rik Peeperkorn, tells reporters. The initial assessment of the cost to rebuild just the health sector was “for even more than $3 billion for the first 1.5 years and then actually $10 billion for the five to seven years.”
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