The UN's Palestinian refugee agency is to make its largest ever financial plea to donors, it said on Thursday, asking for $1.6 billion to rehabilitate war-battered Gaza.
The conflict between Israel and Hamas-led Gaza militants, which ended on Aug. 26, killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians, most of them civilians, and 73 people on the Israeli side, mostly soldiers.
"This is the largest single ask in UNRWA's 64-year history," spokesman Christopher Gunness said ahead of an Oct. 12 donors' conference in Cairo.
"The figure we are requesting at Cairo is $1.6 billion, which makes this ... unprecedented," he said, adding nearly half of that would go towards rebuilding homes damaged during 50 days of war in July and August.
It destroyed tens of thousands of houses, as well as key infrastructure, and left some 100,000 Gazans homeless.
UNRWA outlined its post-war emergency plan in 15-page document, a copy of which was seen by AFP. more
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