Alnabih’s study suggests using Gaza’s war rubble as a valuable resource in coastal protection and reconstruction. Rubble can help strengthen eroded shoreline areas, expand the coastal zone by reclaiming between 740 and 1,235 acres, and develop Gaza’s port and possibly even artificial islands for tourism and infrastructure.
On land, the rubble can be recycled into #eco-friendly construction materials such as pavement blocks, concrete and road base layers, turning destruction into a foundation for recovery and sustainable development.
Current proposals for #Gaza include establishing mobile debris-processing stations, developing labs to test recycled materials for safety, and preserving selected ruins as memorials and documentation spaces. In this way, Gaza’s rubble could one day serve not merely as a reminder of devastation but as the raw material of a renewed future born from its own ruins.
Ultimately, however, all these visions depend on ensuring international accountability for what has become the largest deliberate environmental destruction in modern history.
Rebuilding Gaza is not merely about restoring walls, it is about restoring life, dignity and sovereignty over a land that refuses to die beneath its own rubble.
https://electronicintifada.net/content/rubble-rebirth/51033
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