Gaza rents compete London … an angel greed and destruction

Families in the Gaza Strip face a severe crisis in housing due to the tremendous destruction that touched tens of thousands of houses, which led to a “crazy” rise in the prices of apartments and the few remaining real estate in the area that is just emerging from an Israeli war, which is the most violent and cruel.

The crisis was exacerbated after the ceasefire, as about 600,000 of the displaced returned to the south of their destroyed homes and not suitable for housing in the governorates of Gaza and the North, forcing them to keep them or living inside tents, or searching for apartments to rent them, and many have collided with the prices of double rents and the conditions imposed on them.

While the displaced people are looking for a shelter, some real estate owners took advantage of this need to raise prices to unprecedented levels, which made obtaining appropriate housing a great challenge, at a time when the owners ask for thousands of dollars to meet their real estate rental, which are prices that exceed power and expectations.

London rents

The average rent of a small apartment in Gaza City before the Israeli aggression ranged between 150 and 300 dollars per month without government services, according to the site and the area, and after the destruction of a large part of the residential structure, it reached more than 80%, the prices jumped to shocking numbers, where some apartments require rents of one thousand or even two thousand dollars per month, which is approaching the rates of rental rents in London, which is equivalent to several months of months for many families Palestinian.
Some owners did not take into account the harsh conditions that the population lives due to the destruction and the harsh journey of displacement, but rather took advantage of the situation to increase prices without real justification except for the lack of supply and high demand.

The offers and conditions that the angel sets to rent their properties, some of whom require payment of a rent of 6 months or a year in advance to ensure that the apartment is not lost, while forcing the tenant to go out at any moment imposes the lessor, which puts the tenants in a difficult position, especially with the deterioration of economic conditions and the lack of job opportunities.

New contracts

Some owners have overcome these conditions in stages, by obliging the old tenants “by the war” to pay new high rents that are appropriate to the new prices or leave the apartment, while others stipulated the tenants who were forced to leave the apartment and the displacement of the bombing of the bombing to pay the rent retroactively. The tenant.
Abu Khaled Abu Askar, a head of a family who lost his house during the bombing, says that he has repeatedly searched for an apartment, and whenever he found one at a reasonable price, there will be several other people who want it, so the owner raises the price immediately, and he had to rent a small apartment for a thousand dollars per month, which is an amount that he cannot bear long.

Abu Askar notes to Al -Arabi Al -Jadeed that he could no longer live in a tent, especially in light of the very cold atmosphere, and he says: “I was hoping to find my home intact or I was able to align a room in it, but I was surprised to completely destroy the Al -Saftawi area, including my home.”
Despite the large amount that Abu Askar was forced to pay, he still feels concerned, due to the eagerness of the tenants to request the apartments, which would entice the owner of the property by increasing the amount, or setting additional incurable conditions that compel him to leave the house without the ability to provide any alternative.

Israeli threats

As for the Palestinian Ahmed Thabet, who was renting an apartment close to the Amer project north of Gaza City before the war, he was forced to leave his home due to Israeli threats and frequent displacement in the central and southern provinces. Thabet told Al -Arabi Al -Jadeed that after a ceasefire and returning home, he was forced to reverse the reverse displacement, after he was surprised by the request of the owner of the property to pay the price of renting the last period, claiming that he was unable to rent or dispose of the apartment as a result of the presence of luggage, and his lack of desire to throw the luggage in the street, as did a number of lessors.

Thabet notes that he was paying 200 dollars a month before the war, and he left the house 15 months ago, which is the months that the owner requested to pay, and he adds: “I could not pay or even transfer my pardon because of the lack of transportation at reasonable prices, I moved again to the city of Deir Al -Balah and I try to join the owner to reach a logical solution.”

Double the rent in Gaza

As for the Palestinian king of Abu Nasser, she lives with her four children and her injured husband in a rented house after losing her home, she says: “
Abu Nasser intends to leave the house and go to live in a school of displacement because there is no tent, due to its inability to pay the required amount or even half of it, and she says: “I deprived my family many of the necessary requirements to pay the rent, and if it is raised to this extent, I will not be able to pay one month.”
The Palestinian Sami Siyam is still looking for housing after his return to Gaza City, and he faced many challenges to find an apartment for rent due to the lack of apartments, or the availability of limited offers at exorbitant prices, as well as the requirement of most owners to pay six months or a year in advance.
Fasting for Al -Arabi Al -Jadeed shows the logical condition related to paying several months in advance in order to deteriorate the humanitarian situation, and not to guarantee the security situation, and he says: “How can I pay a provider for six months in light of the unstable circumstances and the possibility of the return of tension, especially in light of the requirement of some owners not to return the amounts even if the region is threatened.”

Equipment at the account of the tenants

Raising rental prices is not limited to large or small residential apartments equipped and flat, but it has reached the unlimited apartments, whose owners are asking the tenants to close their windows with nylon and signs, prepare the bathroom, provide water and the rest of the daily requirements at their own expense, along with the payment of the high rent.
Likewise, the prices of small room rents on the roofs of buildings that are still standing, and the prices of the continuation (commercial stores) that can be used as a living rooms, or for small project owners who lost their shops and their livelihoods, where in the small summary is required at least one thousand dollars per month, while it was leased with only one hundred dollars.

Raising rental prices is not limited to large or small residential apartments equipped and flat, but rather has reached the non -shaved apartments

Despite the intensification of the suffocating crisis, the increase in demand and the scarcity of supply, there are no real solutions to the sacrifice of blackmail and the control of prices or the obligation of the owners not to exploit the need of the population, leaving thousands of families whose homes have lost prey to the greed of the lessors.
The Israeli occupation deliberately destroyed a large percentage of buildings and infrastructure in order to convert the sector into an unpredictable place in order to implement the displacement plans for its residents.

“About two thirds of the buildings in the Gaza Strip were destroyed or damaged due to the intense shelling of the Israeli army, and it will be the removal of 42 million tons of rubble a dangerous and complex operation,” said the head of the United Nations Development Program, Akham Steiner, said, adding that the removal of 42 million tons of rubble will be a dangerous and complex operation, “adding that the war on Gaza” has eliminated 60 years of development. ” Steiner indicated that “it is likely that between 65 and 70% of the buildings in Gaza are completely destroyed or partially damaged.”

Steiner said that “two million people live in Gaza lost their homes, and also lost public infrastructure, wastewater treatment systems, drinking water supply and waste management systems.” A report by the United Nations and the World Bank stated that the damage to infrastructure is estimated at $ 18.5 billion until the end of January 2024.