Meanwhile, Israel maintains its blockade on building materials coming into Gaza, claiming that it wants to prevent them from being used by Hamas to create tunnels. According to Israeli human rights group Gisha, Israel has only allowed into Gaza about a fifth of the amount of construction materials experts estimate are needed to repair the war’s damage. This trickle is so inadequate that Oxfam has estimated it will take a hundred years to rebuild the Strip, assuming Israel doesn’t invade it again in the intervening century.
