Hamas preventing Gazans from rebuilding homes. NGOs silent.

Palestine Press Agency reports that residents of a neighborhood in Beit Hanoun, Gaza whose houses have been completely destroyed in the summer of 2014 are angry because the Hamas’ Land Authority prevents them from rebuilding their houses.

Hamas says the area, known as “Azbat Beit Hanoun," is government-owned land.

An official named Dr. Yousef Al-Kafarne said that the Land Authority also prevented UNRWA from building and repairing there. UNRWA did not issue any press release about this matter.

After some complaints and the intervention of some unnamed “Palestinian factions,” the Hamas Land Authority allowed partially destroyed houses to be rebuilt or renovated.

But completely destroyed houses are forbidden from being rebuilt.

You may recall a few months ago some left-wing NGOs would say that no Gaza homes have been rebuilt from scratch, blaming Israel - even though Israel was allowing tons of construction material to enter and Hamas was rebuilding its terror infrastructure unhindered. A cash shortage  from donors as well as Gaza bureaucracy were also to blame for the slowness of rebuilding.

Now we see that Hamas has been actively opposed to  rebuilding homes.

And those NGOs are silent.



http://elderofziyon.blogspot.ch/2016/01/hamas-preventing-gazans-from-rebuilding.html

The Gaza Shelter Cluster, led by the Norwegian Refugee Committee, issues reports every month on the progress of Gaza reconstruction after Protective Edge.

Given that the war ended in August 2014, one would think that the number of damaged houses would have been pretty much stable shortly afterwards.

The February 2015 report said that 156,000 houses were damaged or destroyed.

The April report said the number was 161,700.

By October, the number of houses damaged in Gaza by August 2014 had gone up to 171,519. (It has remained fairly steady since then.)

Is it possible that the number of damaged houses increased by 10% when there were no bombs falling?



It may be possible that people waited over a year to report legitimate damage on their homes, but that seems very unlikely.

Perhaps some Gazans "damaged" their homes to become eligible to receive cement - which they could then sell to Hamas on the black market.

It is just a theory, but I can't come up with a better one.


http://elderofziyon.blogspot.co.il/2016/01/reported-number-of-gaza-homes-damaged.html


So suspect its beyond belief.

Of course it will keep rising as houses are eventualy condemned as unihabitable. There's that much destruction that it would take ages to get round them all.

It's a bit galling for people complaining about the lack of rebuilding homes when they are the very people who knocked them all down in the first place and the IDF had so much doing it as well.

Irn Bru wrote:Of course it will keep rising as houses are eventualy condemned as unihabitable. There's that much destruction that it would take ages to get round them all.

It's a bit galling for people complaining about the lack of rebuilding homes when they are the very people who knocked them all down in the first place and the IDF had so much doing it as well.

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Really over a year later people only report them, that is desperate as an explanation if ever I heard one.
Now is it not possible there is some underhanded tradding going on here to obtain more materials?
Are people for want of a better word trying to make money because of the corrupt Hamas government that leaves them in poverty?
Again saying stands to reason based on no evidence is not evidence at all