KHAN YUNIS: Fifty Palestinian families made homeless by Israeli bombing during the summer’s fierce offensive on the Gaza Strip were rehoused yesterday in mobile homes in the southern town of Khan Yunis.
During the 50-day conflict, 9,800 homes were totally destroyed and another 8,000 left uninhabitable, according to data from the housing ministry
in Gaza.
Imad Al Haddad, Gaza head of a United Arab Emirates association providing these 50 mobile homes, told AFP that, in the town’s Khuzaa neighbourhood alone 500 families lost the rooves over their heads.
Mohamed Al Najjar, 60, whose three-storey house was crushed by an Israeli air strike, is one of those moving into the UAE accommodation, which he described as an “excellent initiative” for the near term.
“We expect to rebuild our house; we do not just want a temporary solution,” he said.
Al Haddad said each unit — comprising two bedrooms, a bathroom and kitchen — could accommodate six people and cost an estimated $7,000. AFP
