APAwire - APAwire CLIENTS ONLY, Beit Lahia- 20 June 2021. A Palestinian woman inspects damage at her hydroponics greenhouse, which was destroyed by Israeli air strikes during the May 2021 conflict between Hamas and Israel, in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.
01-SOUDBITE: Um Mohammed el-Louh
STORYLINE
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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