It could take 14 years to clear debris in Gaza: UN
The vast amount of rubble including unexploded ordnance left by Israel's devastating war in the Gaza Strip could take about 14 years to remove, a United Nations official said on Friday.Israel's military campaign in Gaza has reduced much of the narrow, coastal territory of 2.3 million people to a wasteland with most civilians homeless, hungry, and at risk of disease.Pehr Lodhammar, a senior officer at the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS), told a briefing in Geneva that the war had left...