APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza- 25 May 2021. Palestinian volunteers and municipal workers clear the rubble of the buildings, recently destroyed by Israeli strikes, in Gaza City after a cease-fire ending 11 days of deadly violence between Israel and the Palestinian Hamas movement.
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US top diplomat Antony Blinken vowed support to help rebuild the battered Gaza Strip and shore up a truce between Hamas and Israel, but insisted the territory's Islamist militant rulers would not benefit from any aid.
Gaza’s housing ministry said that 16,800 housing units had been damaged. Of those, 1,800 had become unfit for living and 1,000 were destroyed completely.
Local sources estimated the bombardments had caused $40 million in damage to factories and the strip’s industrial zone and other industrial facilities, in addition to $22 million in damage to the energy sector.
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