By **ah Browning RAMALLAH West Bank (Reuters) - Rebuilding
Gaza will
cost .8 billion, the Palestinian Authority said on Thursday, in the most comprehensive assessment yet of damage from a seven-week war with Israel during which whole neighborhoods and vital infrastructure were flattened. "The attack on
Gaza this time had ** precedent,
Gaza has been hit with a catastrophe and it needs immediate help because many things can't wait long," Mohammed Shtayyeh, a Palestinian eco**mist and a senior member of the West Bank's dominant Fatah party, told reporters in Ramallah. Rebuilding
Gaza would depend heavily on foreign aid and would require an end to Palestinian rivalry and Israel opening its border crossings, said Shtayyeh, who heads the Palestinian Eco**mic Council for Research and Development (PECDAR) which ran the survey. A do**r conference in Cairo has yet to be formally scheduled, Palestinian institutions remain divided between
Gaza and the West Bank and Israel has yet to fundamentally ease the movement of people and goods at its
Gaza border.
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