The United States has demanded in recent days that Israel take financial responsibility for clearing the vast amounts of rubble across the Gaza Strip and oversee the enormous engineering operation required, according to a Ynet report citing a senior Israeli official.
Israel has agreed to the request, the report says, despite the projected cost reaching as high as one billion shekels. The Prime Minister’s Office has declined to comment on the matter.
The scale of destruction is immense. According to The Wall Street Journal, there are an estimated 68 million tons of debris in Gaza, a figure based on data from the UN Development Program.
Meanwhile, Qatar has publicly ruled out funding Gaza’s reconstruction. Speaking Sunday during an onstage interview at the Doha Forum, Qatari Prime Minister Mohammed Abdulrahman Al Thani made his position clear. “We are not the ones who are going to write the check to rebuild what others destroyed,” Al Thani said. “When you are talking about Gaza, Israel flattened this land.”
The Ynet report also notes growing diplomatic pressure on Israel regarding Gaza’s future governance and security. US Ambassador to Turkey Tom Barrack is expected to meet with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu next week in an effort to persuade Israel to accept Turkish troops operating in Gaza — a proposal Israel has firmly rejected.
According to the senior Israeli official quoted in the report, US discussions with Israel are now focusing more heavily on reconstruction efforts and far less on the dismantling of Hamas. Netanyahu, in private conversations, has reportedly acknowledged that disarming Hamas will ultimately fall to Israeli forces themselves.
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WHAT??????
Does the US FBI reimburse homeowners for ransacking their homes, after bursting in to arrest the criminals within??
Government cannot even pay daycare of Kollel Avreichim kids but no problem coming up with 1B Sheqel to clear up the mess that the enemy caused themselves, not Israel.
I hope America will pay Iraq for doing the same thing to them
This administration will turn its back on Israel just like it’s doing to Ukraine without a thought. Jared can’t get his super rich Arab supporters of hamas to pay for it?
Did the Allied forces accept the responsibility for the rubble clearing operations in Dresden, Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945?
Will Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran be paying for the damage their missiles did to Eretz Yisrael?
Will Hamas be required to pay for the damage done by their October/November missiles to the Israeli communities surrounding Gaza?
Shh… May be a good way to plant listening devices underground to monitor future tunnelling, plant large remote bombs, and maybe even a Kittle Bouy or Fat Man….. Hamaven Yuvim.
When you squeeze money from young families with children because their father lives in the Holy Land and wants to study Torah there, (as if the land belongs to the secular allowing them to make the laws that damage the religious culture of the land!!) then it’s hard to feel bad for you when you get a taste of your own medicine!! The Israeli government gets billions in foreign aid but then tells the Lomdei Torah that their children don’t deserve financial benefits which the other children in the land get!
absolutely right! israel should clean up the mess they made – every home, school, mosque or hospital that didn’t have a hamas tunnel under it, or a hamas outpost in it, or hamas boobytraps. all two of them.
what???? are they crazy!//???what do they think!ISRAEL NEEDS MONEY! Maybe after THE USA PAYS ISRAEL TO TAKE ALL THE CARE, that will be something else! Good luck, Mr. Trump. Please help ISRAEL OUT OF YOUR MESS too!