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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip — The United Nations will quickly raise money for emergency repairs in the Gaza Strip, the world body’s humanitarian chief promised Thursday after witnessing what he called shocking destruction from the three-week war between Israel and Hamas.
But U.N. aid chief John Holmes and another senior U.N. official acknowledged they have no fallback plan if reconstruction is snagged by the power struggle between Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers and their moderate Palestinian rivals in the West Bank.
Hamas, which seized power in Gaza by force in June 2007, insisted Thursday that it will not share control over reconstruction projects that initial estimates have said could cost up to $2 billion.
