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Source: http://www.latimes.com/world/middleeast/la-fg-gaza-reconstruction-adv-snap-story.html?
Two Years after War, Rebuilding in Gaza Is Far from Done, and International Donors Are Bailing
(Los Angeles Times) Rushdi Abu Alouf and Joshua Mitnick - About 75,000 Gazans are still displaced as a $3.5-billion effort to rebuild Gaza from the destruction of the 2014 war creeps along at a pace officials say has fallen years behind schedule. According to the UN, it will take Gaza's economy another two years to return to the point where it was before the war. Only about 50% of promised donor aid - about $1.4 billion - was disbursed as of the end of March, according to the World Bank. Among large donors, the U.S. had transferred all of its $200 million pledge, but Persian Gulf countries such as Kuwait, Qatar, the UAE and Saudi Arabia had transferred only 15% or less of their pledges.