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6 The National Early Recovery and Reconstruction Plan for Gaza 2014 State of Palestine FOREWORD Gaza is once more in crisis. Seven weeks of bombardment and ground incursions have left thousands dead and injured and half a million people displaced. The physical destruction is vast in scale. Yet it is the human loss that is truly incomprehensible and from which will be the hardest to recover. Palestinians living in Gaza have suffered too long and too much. They deserve a future that is free from restriction, confinement, and destruction. With their resilience, ingenuity, and determination, our people in Gaza are more than capable of making the coastal region of Palestine flourish and prosper. Full recovery from years of conflict and devastation can happen only if Gaza is once more connected with the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and all parts of Palestine are once more open to the world. Free movement of people and goods will catalyze Gaza, catapulting it from its current crisis into socio-economic sustainability. Freedom of access must be guaranteed. The borders must be opened. Trade must flow. People must travel. The past months have been some of the grimmest in Palestinian history. And, yet, it was not a new experience. Since the Nakba in 1948 until now, Palestinians have been forced through too many dark days. Israeli military action is constant, with massive assaults in tragic repetition: in Gaza, six-year old children have already lived through three major assaults that have robbed them of friends, family, and their childhood innocence. But our Palestinian people will continue to move forward towards their dream of an independent, prosperous, and peaceful state, with East Jerusalem as their capital. When Gaza last faced such destruction in 2009, Palestinian unity was still a distant dream. Now, our people have achieved that unity, brought together by the National Consensus Government, formed just weeks before the assault on Gaza began. Our Government will exert all efforts to recover, repair, and rebuild Gaza as an integral region of Palestine. We extend our hand to the international community, to our partners in peace and our friends in times of need. We challenge the world to be ambitious and daring in helping us realize our dream of prosperity and justice in an independent state, free of military occupation. An immediate measure is to end the blockade on Gaza and ensure our people never again experience the horrors of this summer. A brighter future is on the horizon. Give Palestinians in Gaza the tools, the opportunities, and the freedom to secure that future - here and now. Rami Hamdallah Prime Minister
7 State of Palestine ACKNOWLEDGMENTS This document was prepared by the Palestinian Government’s Higher Inter-Ministerial Committee for Gaza Recovery and Reconstruction, supported by the Inter-Governmental Technical Committee. This Plan will be used to consolidate resources and responses to help the Palestinian people in Gaza rebuild their lives and livelihoods. As such, it forms the basis for mobilizing resources and efforts at the international conference in Cairo, Egypt on October 12, 2014 and provides the guiding framework for all relief, early recovery, and reconstruction interventions. The Government would like to express its appreciation to the institutions that contributed to the development of this plan and the rapid damage and needs assessment that underpins it, including the line ministries, other Government bodies, the United Nations, the World Bank, the European Union (EU), the Office of the Quartet Representative, international and national NGOs, and the private sector. Special appreciation goes to Egypt and Norway for organizing the donor conference. As we work together to provide our people in Gaza with a better future, we acknowledge the damage that can never be undone and the loss that will remain, even when peace and prosperity return. We honor the memory of the thousands who have died, we mourn with those left behind, and stand with those who have suffered the most. Finally and with the greatest sorrow, we remember the children: those who have died and those who still live, haunted by the horrors of this assault and the other assaults that have overshadowed their childhoods. Mohammad Mustafa Deputy Prime Minister Chairman of Inter-Ministerial Committee
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