{"id":195304,"date":"2010-02-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?p=195304"},"modified":"2019-03-12T16:59:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T16:59:07","slug":"auto-insert-195304","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/auto-insert-195304\/","title":{"rendered":"Building back in Gaza – with mud bricks – IRIN\/ Non-Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Document"},"content":{"rendered":"
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GAZA, 8 February 2010 (IRIN) – Hassan al-Err, aged 67, and his seven-member family are moving into a mud house built by the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ agency for Palestinian refugees (Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA) in the Gaza Strip, because other building materials are not available. <\/p>\n

The two-bedroom house in the Ezbet Abed Rabbo neighbourhood of Jabaliya town, north of Gaza City, is an improvement on the tent in which they had been living – next to the rubble of their former home. <\/p>\n

Rebuilding homes damaged in last year’s 23-day war, has been almost impossible because Israel does not allow construction materials such as cement and steel into the Strip, saying they could be used for military purposes. <\/p>\n

“I can’t forget how hard the past year has been for me and my family living in a tent in the cold winter and the hot summer,” al-Err told IRIN. “Of course a mud house is much better than a tent, although it’s not a real solution because I can’t build another flat on top of it for my two married sons who live in a rented house in Jabaliya town.”<\/p>\n

Al-Err’s previous home in al-Salam neighbourhood, eastern Jabaliya, was one of 4,036 houses in Gaza which were totally destroyed or beyond repair, according to an April 2009 Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA and Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Development Programme <\/span>assessment<\/a>. <\/p>\n

“The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ hopes to build around 120 mud brick houses for dozens of homeless families in the next few months in the Strip. Each house costs about US$10,000 and takes three months to build,” said Adnan Abu Hasna’a, an Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA spokesman. <\/p>\n

While these houses were not a long-term solution for homeless families, he said, they offered better conditions than tents or partially destroyed buildings. They also provided employment for people Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵRWA is training to make mud bricks and homes.
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Cement makes up 3 percent of each mud brick, to ensure enough strength, while keeping costs down, officials working on the project said. <\/p>\n

International donors pledged US$4.5 billion in aid for the Palestinian Authority, much of it specifically for Gaza, at a conference in Egypt in March 2009, but little has made its way to the Strip because of the continuing blockade and bitter Palestinian divisions between political parties Hamas and Fatah. <\/p>\n

“People in Gaza are determined to overcome all hardships and to challenge the Israeli siege imposed on the Strip,” Yousef al-Mansi, Hamas housing minister, said.
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