There are promising early indications from countries, including the United States as well as Arab and European states, about their willingness to contribute to the $70 billion cost of rebuilding Gaza, a United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) official has said, Reuters reports.

“We’ve had very good indications already,” UNDP’s Jaco Cilliers told reporters at a press conference in Geneva, without giving details.

He estimated that Israel’s two-year war on Gaza had generated at least 55 million tons of rubble.