Gaza Rebuilding May Take 80 Years – UN Expert

United Nations housing expert Balakrishnan Rajagopal has stated that the reconstruction of Gaza could take 80 years if the Israeli occupation continues its aggression on the enclave.

“The level of destruction in certain areas of #Gaza, particularly northern Gaza, is approaching levels of 100%. It’s not 70% anymore. And one has to ask, what is really the goal or the military objective of destruction of this scale, which no other military power in any recent conflict has seen necessary in order to win a war Rajagopal said.

“If truly what’s going on in Gaza is a war, the purpose of war is victory. But what is the metric of victory here? I’ve been unable to understand, given the scale of this destruction.”

Meanwhile at least 19 more Palestinians were killed in Israeli attacks in the Gaza Strip, bringing the overall death toll since October last year to 42,519, the Health Ministry in the enclave said on Saturday.

A ministry statement added that some 99,637 others were injured in the ongoing assault.

“Israeli forces killed 19 people and injured 91 others in three massacres of families in the last 24 hours,” the ministry said.

“Many people are still trapped under the rubble and on the roads as rescuers are unable to reach them,” it added.

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Gaza Situation Catastrophic – Health Director

Palestinian doctor Munir Al-Barsh, Director of Health in Gaza, warned:

That the situation is catastrophic in hospitals in northern Gaza, adding that more than 450 Palestinians have been killed, and their bodies have arrived at the hospitals, with our estimates indicating 500 Palestinians.

Massacres against civilians are being committed by the Israeli occupation in the northern Gaza Strip to forcibly displace them from their homes. The Israeli occupation is working to dismantle the healthcare system in northern Gaza, he added.

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Hezbollah Drone Explodes Next to Netanyahu’s Residence  

Israeli security services and army are on high alert, Saturday morning, watching for incoming missiles and drones from southern Lebanon.

One drone apparently exploded in a building near the private residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Ceasarea, southern Haifa.

The Israeli army admitted the attack took place but didn’t go into detail. The drone was part of three, two were intercepted but the third travelled to its target it was reported.

The Israeli media is presently covering this unprecedented drone attack thought to be targeting the private residence of the Israeli prime minister. His office wouldn’t confirm if he was in the building at the time or not and keeping everyone guessing.

Despite the coverage of the potentially-deadly event, locally and internationally with news websites and the social media reporting, there is a complete media blackout and censorship by Israeli official sources.

The Israeli army is baffled by the fact that the drones travelled 70 kilometers from Lebanon into Israeli airspace, that is supposedly carefully monitored, and honed in at the building in Ceasarea.

The north of Israel has become a battleground of missiles and rockets fired from Hezbollah after Tel Aviv began bombing southern Lebanon and Beirut’s southern district after 23 September.  

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