Overview
- Oxfam and a coalition of NGOs published the plan on Thursday, July 23, 2026, aligning its $71.4 billion price tag with an April U.N./EU/World Bank Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment.
- The report lays out a phased five-year roadmap with immediate stabilization, early service restoration, large-scale housing and infrastructure reconstruction, and longer-term development.
- Housing accounts for roughly half of the damage, with commerce, transport and public services also heavily hit, and the report says Gaza’s human development has been set back decades after schools, hospitals and cultural institutions were destroyed.
- The plan warns that external, donor-led models will fail and says Palestinian institutions must lead reconstruction, but efforts are blocked by Israel’s restrictions on materials, disputes over disarmament and donor conditions.
- With more than 1.9 million displaced and rubble clearance and specialized equipment needed first, the report says delayed large-scale rebuilding will prolong mass displacement, high unemployment and loss of basic services while only small pilots, such as 50,000 portable cabins near Rafah, have been approved so far.