The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) has started a wide-scope compensation for the owners of partially damaged houses during the recent Israeli war on the Gaza Strip last May.
A spokesman for the UNRWA Adnan Abu Hasna stated that the Agency opened social services offices throughout the Gaza Strip to hand out the compensations.
Around 2,200 refugees headed to the offices to complete the procedures. Hasna said that the benefits will be delivered via banks during the upcoming days,
Israel carried out an 11-day aggression on Gaza and it ended by declaring a ceasefire on May 21.
The aggression caused severe destruction to 1,335 residential institutions, and moderate destruction to around 12,886 houses, according to the Government Media Office in Gaza.
UNRWA launched this operation in coordination with the Ministry of Public Works and Housing (MoPWH) and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) as well as other UN organizations.
The compensation of UNRWA is part of a wider plan to reconstruct Gaza.
In the same context, Egypt announced a financial grant of $500 million to construct three housing complexes in the Gaza Strip: The American School in northern Gaza, the veterans’ area in Karama, and Al-Zahraa in the middle.
