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The United Nations said Thursday that the post-war reconstruction of Gaza would require an international effort unseen since the aftermath of World War II, estimating it could cost up to $40 billion.
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It came as Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh struck an optimistic tone over a possible truce and hostage release deal for Gaza, after weeks of largely stalled negotiations.
There have been reports of sticking points between the militant group and Israel nearly seven months into the war that has devastated the Palestinian territory.
But Haniyeh, head of the militant group's Qatar-based political bureau, said in calls to Egyptian and Qatari mediators that Hamas was studying the latest proposal with a "positive spirit".
Much of Gaza has been reduced to a grey landscape of rubble and the United Nations estimated the cost of reconstruction at between $30 billion and $40 billion.
"The scale of the destruction is huge and unprecedented... this is a mission that the global community has not dealt with since World War II," UN assistant secretary-general Abdallah al-Dardari told a briefing in the Jordanian capital Amman.
The UN official said "72 percent of all residential buildings have been completely or partially destroyed".
Reconstruction is made more difficult by the presence of large quantities of unexploded ordnance in the debris that Gaza's Civil Defence agency says triggers "more than 10 explosions every week".
The war started with Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel that resulted in the deaths of 1,170 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.
Israel estimates that 129 captives seized by militants during their attack remain in Gaza. The military says 34 of them are dead.
Israel's retaliatory offensive against Hamas, has killed at least 34,596 people in Gaza -- mostly women and children -- including 28 over the past day, according to the health ministry in the Hamas-run territory.
- 'Get this done' -
Mediators have proposed a deal that would halt fighting for 40 days and exchange Israeli hostages for potentially thousands of Palestinian prisoners, according to details released by Britain.
An Israeli official not authorised to speak publicly said Israel was still waiting for Hamas's formal response to the latest proposal.
Before Haniyeh's comments on Thursday, Hamas officials had given it a generally negative reception.
Senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan told AFP late Wednesday that the movement's position on the proposal was "negative" for the time being.
Another senior Hamas official, Suhail al-Hindi, said the group's aim remained an "end to this war" -- a goal at odds with the stated position of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
But the militant group has come under intense pressure from mediators to accept the latest offer.
"Hamas needs to say yes and needs to get this done," Blinken said in Israel Wednesday on his latest Middle East crisis tour.
- Mounting criticism -
Following a meeting with Blinken, Israel's opposition leader Yair Lapid insisted that Netanyahu "doesn't have any political excuse not to move to a deal for the release of the hostages".
Regardless of whether a truce is reached, Netanyahu has vowed to send Israeli ground troops into Rafah, despite US opposition to any operation that fails to provide protection for the 1.5 million civilians sheltering in Gaza's southernmost city.
"We will do what is necessary to win and overcome our enemy, including in Rafah," he pledged at the start of cabinet meeting Thursday.
The prime minister faces regular protests calling on him to make a deal that would bring home the remaining captives.
On Thursday, protesters set up over-sized photographs of women hostages outside Netanyahu's Jerusalem residence. In Tel Aviv they again blocked a highway.
Criticism of the war has also intensified in the United States, Israel's top military supplier.
Demonstrations have spread to at least 30 US universities, with some protesters erecting encampments to oppose Gaza's rising death toll.
Israeli President Isaac Herzog slammed the student protests, charging that US universities had been "contaminated by hatred and anti-Semitism".
President Joe Biden said the United States was "not an authoritarian nation where we silence people" but added that anti-Semitism had "no place" on US campuses.
- A mother's tears -
In response to US pressure, Israel has allowed increased aid deliveries into Gaza in recent days, including through a reopened crossing.
But UN aid chief Martin Griffiths said that "improvements in bringing more aid into Gaza" cannot be used "to prepare for or justify a full-blown military assault on Rafah".
The US military since last week has been building a temporary pier off Gaza to boost aid deliveries. The pier is now more than half finished, the Pentagon said on Wednesday.
In south Gaza's largest city Khan Yunis, foreign aid and borrowed equipment helped to "almost completely" restore the emergency department at Nasser Medical Complex, said its director Atef al-Hout.
Intense fighting raged in mid-February around the hospital, which Israeli tanks and armoured vehicles later surrounded.
Witnesses and an AFP correspondent reported air strikes on Khan Yunis Thursday and shelling in the Rafah area, while militants and Israeli troops battled in Gaza City to the north.
Nadi, who was also wounded in the strike, said she feared the hospital's power might go out, cutting the boy's oxygen and killing him.
"I call on the world to transfer my son for treatment abroad. He is in a very bad condition," she said, breaking down in tears.