At least $10 billion will likely be needed to rebuild Gaza’s devastated health system over the next five to seven years, according to an initial World Health Organisation assessment, AFP reports.

“The needs are massive,” the UN health agency’s representative in the Palestinian territories, Rik Peeperkorn, told reporters. The initial assessment of the cost to rebuild just the health sector was “for even more than $3bn for the first 1.5 years and then actually $10bn for the five to seven years”.