Shaina Low: Rebuilding Gaza will take years

Rebuilding and demining efforts in Gaza will likely take several years to complete, spokesperson for the Norwegian Refugee Council Shaina Low says.

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00:00So how would you describe the humanitarian situation in the north of Gaza, what sort

00:05of words could one use?

00:08I mean it's a hellscape, the amount of destruction is just unimaginable, I mean we see the images

00:17but we think about that in terms of not only the structures themselves but also the memories

00:24that have been lost, the people who are still buried under the rubble, it's going to take

00:29not weeks, months but years in order for us to be able to really remove all of this rubble,

00:36ensure that the UN itself has estimated that it will take 14 years just to demine all of

00:43Gaza at this point and remove all of the explosive remnants of war.