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The National Early Recovery and Reconstruction Plan for Gaza 2014
SECTION 4: RECOVERY AND RECONSTRUCTION INTERVENTIONS
4.2 Infrastructure Sector
Immediate response, as part of the relief and early recovery effort, is essential to ease individual suffering and increase
access to basic services. However, given that Gaza’s infrastructure was already at breaking point prior to the assault,
short term fixes cannot evolve into long-term solutions. Equally, the infrastructure reconstruction effort cannot simply
be a re-building of pre-existing infrastructure. Instead, reconstruction efforts will be informed by long-term, cross-sector
infrastructure planning that will establish effective integrated infrastructure networks as the basis for long-term sustainable
social and economic development.
A critical pre-requisite for infrastructure development is access and movement. Even the most urgent need or the most strategic
priority cannot be met if the blockade is not ended. Without materials and fuel, networks cannot be mended, houses cannot be
built, and a healthy and sustainable future cannot be assured
4.2.1 Clearance of Rubble and Explosive Remnants of War
Relief Early Recovery Reconstruction Total
- $20m $14m $34m
Two and a half million tons of rubble need to be removed, the mass clearance can be divided between the early recovery phase
and the reconstruction phase. Although it is not suitable for rebuilding, the rubble removed during the reconstruction phase
can be reused for road rehabilitation, curbs stones, and road paving. Large chunks of concrete can be reused as wave breakers
for the fishing harbor.
Given the high tonnage of munitions used during this assault and the December 2008 assault, there is a significant risk that ERWs
will be hidden in the rubble. Activities will include rapid assessments, emergency ERW (and explosive hazards) risk education
for civilians and humanitarian actors in highly impacted neighborhoods, as well as the oversight and monitoring of marking,
collection, and disposal of ERW by the Police EOD teams as and when the security and political situations allow. Activities would
begin in the early recovery phase and continue through the reconstruction phase.