APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Gaza - 29 May 2021. Palestinian workers demolish a building that was damaged during last week's Israeli airstrikes, in the Al-Rimal neighbourhood
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Gaza’s housing ministry said on Thursday 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.
Gaza's agriculture ministry estimated around $27 million in damage that included greenhouses, agricultural lands and poultry farms.
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