Ramallah, July 9 (Prensa Latina) Palestinian Minister of Local Government Majdi Al-Saleh today announced the start of work by specialized technical teams to assess the damage in the Jenin refugee camp following the recent Israeli aggression.
Speaking to La Voz de Palestina radio station, the official explained that the aim is to take stock of the damage to houses, vehicles, roads and infrastructure.
He noted that 20 families could not return to their homes because they were uninhabitable.
The committee will complete its work in less than two weeks and continue reconstruction in coordination with the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Middle East, he stressed.
Several countries, including the United Arab Emirates and Algeria, have already donated millions of dollars to rebuild this camp.
Jenin Deputy Governor Kamal Abu Al-Rub yesterday denounced that the Israeli offensive against that city had damaged the water, electricity and telephone networks.
Around 15,000 people live there, an estimated one thousand residential units, including apartments and houses.
In statements to the press, Abu al-Rub described the military operation as barbaric aggression and stressed that it had caused “significant damage to houses, property and infrastructure”.
Dozens of vehicles were completely damaged and many others were partially damaged, as were numerous roads, he warned.
Around a thousand soldiers and 150 armored vehicles on Monday began the largest military operation in the West Bank in recent years, arguing to destroy “a nest of terrorists,” as Palestinian militants call them.
During the two-day military offensive, 12 Palestinians died, five of them minors, and more than 140 were injured. A soldier was also killed.
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