"Well, you just start by clearing the rubble. And NPR's Anas Baba has been walking around Gaza City, and he reports that bulldozers are clearing some of the main roads, but there's still just a huge amount of work to be done. ANAS BABA, BYLINE: Piles and piles and mountains of debris and rubble that cover the city streets. We're talking about hospitals. We're talking here about houses. We're talking about universities."
"Well, Steve, it needs so many things, and let's just focus on one - cement. So basic to building all over the world, yet it has this complicated history in Gaza. Israel says that in the past, Hamas siphoned off cement going into Gaza and meant for civilian projects, and made hundreds of miles of concrete tunnels that its fighters used in the war."
Ceasefire in Gaza begins a lengthy, complex reconstruction process while most buildings lie ruined. Bulldozers clear some main roads in Gaza City, but mountains of debris cover hospitals, homes, and universities, and bodies and unexploded bombs remain buried in the rubble. Reconstruction requires vast quantities of cement and other materials, but past diversion of cement to build extensive concrete tunnels has prompted strict Israeli oversight. Anticipated monitoring and restrictions on construction supplies, combined with a lack of funding, will significantly slow rebuilding and complicate restoration of basic services.
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