Jorge Moreira da Silva, Executive Director of the UN Office for Project Services (UNOPS), said on Thursday that each person in Gaza is surrounded by 30 tonnes of rubble. He noted that “Gaza contains more than 60 million tonnes of debris, the capacity of nearly 3,000 container ships.”
He warned, “It is likely to take over 7 years to clear this rubble,” calling the destruction “overwhelming.” Da Silva added the “humanitarian crisis is deepening” and that “the people in Gaza are exhausted, traumatized, and overwhelmed,” with winter rains “doubling people’s misery and desperation.”
