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With Cement in Short Supply, Gaza Reconstruction Could Take Over 30 Years

Housing minister says Gaza needs 8,000 tons of cement a day to meet demand; Israel allows only 2,000 in a day.

Nidal al-Mughrabi and Luke Baker
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REUTERS - Three months after the war in Gaza, Sadeeqa Naseer still lives in a bomb site. Air strikes turned the two upper floors of her three-storey apartment building in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun into a rubble-strewn ruin.

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