{"id":450840,"date":"2026-04-20T17:45:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/04\/20\/lue-la-ricostruzione-di-gaza-costera-71-miliardi-di-euro\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:00:58","slug":"the-eu-the-reconstruction-of-gaza-will-cost-e71-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/04\/20\/the-eu-the-reconstruction-of-gaza-will-cost-e71-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"The EU: “The reconstruction of Gaza will cost \u20ac71 billion”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 “It is estimated that the reconstruction of Gaza will cost at least \u20ac71 billion<\/strong>.” The announcement was made by the EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Kaja Kallas<\/strong>, during the meeting of the Liaison Committee for Palestine (Ad Hoc Liaison Committee, AHLC<\/a>), and serves to highlight the scale of the work required in the Palestinian territories, in addition to the destructive force of the Israeli armed forces in their military response to Hamas, which has already recognised as excessive by the international community<\/a> and for which an international arrest warrant has been issued for the Israeli Prime Minister<\/a>. “We have been working for four months with the World Bank and the United Nations on this assessment, which was published today,” Kallas explains, assuring that “we will take care of the recovery<\/strong>” of the Palestinian economy, and in this regard, “the final assessment of the damage and needs in Gaza will determine what is required.”<\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n

First and foremost, there must be a genuine end to Israel\u2019s actions in the Strip, as further raids would certainly drive up the cost of reconstruction. Then, Kallas continues, “Israel must release the withheld tax revenues: this money belongs to the Palestinian people<\/strong>.” These are resources needed to enable the administrative functioning of a torn-apart territory. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The international community must, however, take immediate action. \u201cGaza needs money; it needs measures and projects,\u201d urges Norway\u2019s Foreign Minister, Espen Barth Eide<\/strong>, and it needs them now. \u201cWhile some work has begun, the reconstruction currently underway is still minimal\u201d compared to the sheer scale of the task ahead, he warns.<\/p>\n

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This sense of urgency was also echoed by the Palestinian Prime Minister, Mohammad Mustafa,<\/strong> who sees reconstruction as primarily a matter of rebuilding the human and social fabric: “Six months of a ceasefire have achieved little from a humanitarian perspective, and 85 per cent of the population is unemployed,” he laments. Faced with this situation, “international support remains essential<\/strong>,” even though it is not only Gaza that needs to be rebuilt: “Gaza and the West Bank must be unified under a single authority.”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Figures released by the EU\u2019s High Representative, Kaja Kallas: \u201cWe will take charge of Gaza\u2019s recovery,\u201d she assures. Norway: \u201cLet\u2019s get started on the projects straight away.\u201d The Palestinian Prime Minister: \u201cInternational support remains essential\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":450829,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25707],"tags":[25890,26327,25794,31310,27337,27931,33394],"class_list":["post-450840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-politics","tag-gauze","tag-middle-east-en","tag-norway-en","tag-ue"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450841,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450840\/revisions\/450841"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}