Close to 30 countries have pledged a total of $5.4 billion to help the Gaza Strip recover from the devastation dealt by Israeli artillery and armor in July and August. The promise of massive aid casts a ray of hope on the Palestinian enclave that has been trying to recover from the trauma of war.
Israel unleashed its military might on Gaza after rockets fired by Hamas militants rained down on Israeli border communities. For 50 days, Israeli troops and tanks reduced buildings into rubble as they tried to ferret out determined Hamas fighters. When they finally pulled out, almost all of Gaza was in ruins. Nearly 2,200 Palestinians, many of them civilians, were dead. A quarter of Gaza’s 1.7 million residents lost their homes. Its economy was in tatters.
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