Beirut – With a malicious political timing consistent with an anti-resistance conspiracy to prevent the reconstruction of what was left behind by a US-led Israeli invasion, the World Bank issued a report entitled “Lebanon’s Rapid Damage and Needs Assessment.”
Without a doubt, the main goal of the World Bank report is to exaggerate and expand the losses as the report’s contents are perfectly in line with intensive efforts led by the western and Persian Gulf capitals to prevent the reconstruction of war-torn Lebanese territory.
The report shows that Navatier and the governors of Southern Lebanon are most affected, with the continued succession of Mount Lebanon (the southern suburb of Beirut, Hezbollah’s base).
In an interview, Hezbollah’s executive director, Sheikh Naim Qassem confirmed that the resistance movement would not allow Israelis to remain in the occupied areas.
“We are giving (Lebanese) states the opportunity to work politically to prove to the whole world that Israel will withdraw through resistance rather than through politics,” he said.
His rise states, “The reconstruction process is an integral part of the country’s reform and rescue process. In partnership with the resistance movement, there is a sect or group target. The government must carefully study how to carry out the reconstruction process along with reform and rescue measures to revive the country.”
Sheikh Qassem added, “Evacuating people is a great achievement we have achieved…though this is part of the state’s responsibility.”
The World Bank report argued that the amount of direct damage caused by the September-October Israeli-led invasion affecting physical assets was $6.8 billion, with economic losses reaching $7.2 billion.
This means the total loss is $14 billion, noting that a preliminary World Bank report estimated the cost to $8.5 billion (an increase of 65%).
Furthermore, this does not take into account the value of the compensation Hezbollah paid in a short period of time. This has been worth around $650 million so far.
The World Bank report estimates that “recovery and reconstruction needs” will reach $11 billion. We need to secure 8.4 billion yen between 2025 and 2027.
The losses for the destroyed housing units are estimated to be $4.6 billion, with the “needs for reconstruction of the housing sector” projecting to reach $6.3 billion out of the $11 billion. The remaining value is for the restructuring of infrastructure and public service institutions, which is 57% of the total recovery needs.
This report split the way in which this amount is paid in three stages. For the time being in 2025, we will have to pay $1.6 billion. In 2026 and 2027, we will need to pay $2.4 billion. From 2028 to 2030, we will need to pay $1.8 billion.
Meanwhile, the Lebanese government has decided not to oppose the occupation regime, but to swing weapons in the South against citizens who took initiative to restore or rebuild their homes.
The pace of attacks in the occupation regime has accelerated without any official response, but finds it is dispersed as it does not prevent the border town’s more than 100,000 residents from returning to the village.
A sufficient source told the Tehran Times that the reconstruction files, funded locally and internationally, are now frozen as they are linked to the completion of the land boundary boundary with Israeli occupational organizations.
Axios argued that Tel Aviv, Washington and Beirut had “agreement to allow Israeli forces to control five positions in Lebanon for weeks or months, until Lebanese forces stabilize the situation in southern Lebanon and ensure that Hezbollah is no longer a threat.
“(The) Aoun Presidency is a historic opportunity to change Lebanon’s reality for the better,” Axios quoted as saying by US officials.