Factors Influencing Post-disaster Reconstruction Project Management for Housing Provision in the Gaza Strip, Occupied Palestinian Territories

City centers worldwide are perceived as essential parts of the city, where city memories are preserved and its identity is expressed. They are planned to satisfy the functional requirements and pleasurable qualities of the city. Under the accelerating urbanization of the modern city, several challenges face these centers including demographic, economic, and environmental challenges. This requires a continuous and incremental urban development process based on clear strategy and action plans. Thus, this study focuses on urban development strategies of city centers, with a focus on Rafah city located in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian Territories. The geographic location of this city near the Palestinian-Egyptian borders makes it a promising commercial city at local and regional levels. Thus, the current situation of Rafah city center has been analyzed, and several development strategies have been proposed. This has been done through a field survey based on observation and a questionnaire directed to city center users. It has been found that there is a great potential of Rafah city center to be developed as a commercial center. In this regard, several strategies and required actions have been proposed in the fields of transportation, environmental quality, shopping activities, investment opportunities, and visual perception.

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Assessment of Physicians’ Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices Regarding Smoking Cessation Management in the Gaza Strip

Journal of Addiction Research ◽

10.33140/jar.04.02.01 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 4 (2) ◽

Keyword(s):

Smoking Cessation ◽

Gaza Strip ◽

Smoking Habit ◽

Public Spaces ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Convenience Sample ◽

Attitudes And Practices ◽

Palestinian Territories ◽

The Gaza Strip ◽

The Impact

Background: Despite its negative effects, approximately 23% of Palestinians (≥ 18 years) smoke cigarettes. Studies have shown physicians to be an important channel for smoking cessation intervention. This investigation examines physicians’ smoking-related knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors in the Gaza strip (Palestinian Territories). Methods and Findings: A convenience sample of 154 physicians in medical and surgical units took part in this investigation (87.7% response rate). The data show that 37.8% of physicians in Gaza smoke, and most of them about 72% smoke in the hospital’s public spaces, thereby implicitly giving public approval for smoking. While 82.4% reported that they advise patients who smoke to stop, the majority (59%) also believe that their own smoking habits negatively influence the impact of that advice. Unfortunately, our survey showed that physicians’ knowledge levels towards smoking addiction and management were lower than expected (e.g. only 34% knew that nicotine dependence is a psychiatric disorder that necessitates treatment). The physicians in this study believed that the primary barriers to failure of their patients’ smoking cessation were the perceived lack of will (81.3%), and the strength of patients’ addiction (67.9%). Moreover, (61%) of physicians did not spend enough time to convince their patients to quit smoking. Conclusion: Smoking is common among Gaza-strip physicians, and unfortunately, most of them smoke in the hospital’s public spaces. Many obstacles face the smoking cessation program that some physicians linked it to patients, and others linked it to the health-care system. Furthermore, smokers in Gaza receive poor care regarding assessment, referral, and management of their smoking habit.

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Challenges Hindering the Resourcing for Post-Disaster Housing Reconstruction in Gaza

Journal of Construction in Developing Countries ◽

10.21315/jcdc2021.26.2.9 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 26 (2) ◽

pp. 183-210

Author(s):

Nour Saleh ◽

Adnan Enshassi ◽

Matthias Sundermeier

Keyword(s):

Current Knowledge ◽

Gaza Strip ◽

Rank Test ◽

Negative Effects ◽

Political Issues ◽

Signed Rank Test ◽

The Gaza Strip ◽

Housing Reconstruction ◽

Post Disaster ◽

Implementing Agencies

Resourcing post-disaster housing reconstruction (PDHR) entails many drawbacks creating bottlenecks to reconstruction projects. Understanding these vulnerable issues is of utmost to identify the appropriate interventions to mitigate their effects. The devastating aggression in 2014 in Gaza Strip served as a typical example of resources hampers. Based on the quantitative approach, the research employed a self-administrated questionnaire survey to identify the most significant challenges hindering the resourcing for post-2014 aggression housing reconstruction. The questionnaire targeted 55 of the key people in the implementing agencies of post-2014 aggression housing reconstruction. The data collected was analysed using descriptive statistics, through frequency distribution and effect index (EI); and using inferential statistics through one sample Wilcoxon signed rank test. Findings indicated that the challenges related to political issues have the most significant effect on resourcing the PDHR. The main key challenges are: (1) Difficulties to obtain permits from the Israeli side to flow the reconstruction materials into the Gaza Strip, (2) Insufficient funds for reconstruction efforts and (3) Refusal of the international community to contact the local de facto government. This research fills the knowledge gap relating to Gaza and provides the basis for more research on resourcing problems. This research has also extended, updated and confirmed the current knowledge regarding challenges hindering the resourcing for PDHR. The results draw attention of the implementing agencies in Gaza to the factors that creating bottlenecks to resource the reconstruction projects in order to overcome them and to mitigate their negative effects.

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Trust and prosocial behaviour in a process of state capacity building: the case of the Palestinian territories

Journal of Institutional Economics ◽

10.1017/s1744137414000575 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 11 (4) ◽

pp. 823-846 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

LUCA ANDRIANI ◽

FABIO SABATINI

Keyword(s):

Social Order ◽

Gaza Strip ◽

Empirical Studies ◽

Public Institutions ◽

Institutional Trust ◽

Prosocial Behaviour ◽

Generalized Trust ◽

Palestinian Territories ◽

The Gaza Strip

AbstractThis paper contributes to the literature by conducting the first empirical investigation into the determinants of prosocial behaviour in the Palestinian Territories, with a focus on the role of trust and institutions. Drawing on a unique dataset collected through the administration of a questionnaire to a representative sample of the population of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, we have found that institutional trust is the strongest predictor of prosociality. This result suggests that, in collectivist societies with low levels of generalized trust, the lack of citizens’ confidence in the fairness and efficiency of public institutions may compromise social order. The strengthening of institutional trust may also reinforce prosocial behaviour in individualist societies, where a decline in generalized trust has been documented by empirical studies.

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Project Management Pattern Selection of Post-Disaster Reconstruction Projects Based on Multi-Dimensions Perspective

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.501-504.2659 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 501-504 ◽

pp. 2659-2663

Author(s):

Xin Li Zhang ◽

Li Min Jia ◽

Jie Li

Keyword(s):

Project Management ◽

External Factors ◽

Pattern Selection ◽

Analysis Method ◽

Internal Factors ◽

Management Pattern ◽

Analysis Process ◽

Reconstruction Project ◽

Post Disaster ◽

Selection Of

This study selects nine indicators impacting on project management pattern selection of post-disaster reconstruction projects. Questionnaire investigation is carried out based on the nine indicators and the needed data for this study is collected. Using factor analysis method, the nine indicators are classified into three main dimensions, which are internal factors, external factors and project goals. Correlation analysis between three main dimensions and six project management patterns is conducted to find the key dimension affecting each management pattern selection. According to the above analysis process, this study provides a selection flowchart of post-disaster reconstruction project management pattern, which may provide a new way for post-disaster reconstruction project pattern selection.

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Economic and post - disaster in Gaza: الاقتصاد وما بعد الكارثة في غزة

مجلة إدارة المخاطر والأزمات - Journal of Risk and Crisis Management ◽

10.26389/ajsrp.b100419 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

Author(s):

Bissan Rajab Fares, Mohammed M. El Mougher, Mohamed Ramadan

Keyword(s):

Economic Crisis ◽

Gaza Strip ◽

The State ◽

The Face ◽

The Gaza Strip ◽

Post Disaster

The Gaza Strip suffers from the economic destruction caused by the wars and siege, which constitutes a disaster for the Palestinian people. In this research, We discuss the role of the economy in the aftermath of the disaster and compare the State of Iraq in the face of its disaster and how it managed to get out of that crisis. There was an interview with Professor Naser Awad in the Ministry of Economy, On how to get out of the economic crisis in Gaza.

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Geopolitical Challenges, Complexities, and Future Uncertainties in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Land and Population’s Perspectives

New Middle Eastern Studies ◽

10.29311/nmes.v10i1.3639 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Hilmi S. Salem

Keyword(s):

Social Economic ◽

Gaza Strip ◽

Well Being ◽

Historical Background ◽

The Political ◽

Palestinian Territories ◽

Education And Health ◽

Main Determinants ◽

The Gaza Strip ◽

East Jerusalem

Geopolitical challenges, complexities, and future uncertainties have greatly and adversely affected all aspects of life, as well as the well-being of the Palestinian citizens living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), comprised of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. The OPT were militarily occupied by the Israeli forces in June 1967 and, since then, the Israeli military rules have been applied to the OPT. The demographic issues in the OPT have gained a great importance at the political, geopolitical, social, economic, environmental, educational, health-wise, and housing, as well as at other aspects of life. This is due to the fact that demographic issues, along with the land, are the main determinants of the Palestinian choices towards sustainable development in a future, sovereign, independent, stable, and secure state of Palestine to be established in the OPT, with East Jerusalem as its capital. So, because of the limited areas of land which Palestinians have access to; because of the limited natural resources that are available to them; and because of the narrowing of the political horizons and choices available to the Palestinians, the real Palestinian wealth in the OPT is the human being. This article investigates and analyses several geopolitical challenges, complexities, and future uncertainties in the OPT, with a focus on key demographic issues, including human trends and socioeconomic trends, which include marital status, housing, education, and health. Additionally, the article examines the historical background of the present situation. It also provides important recommendations and supporting elements towards developing Palestinian national policies related to the well-being of the Palestinian citizens and institutions within the OPT.

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Independence, Cantons, or Bantustans: Whither the Palestinian State?

The Middle East Journal ◽

10.3751/59.2.13 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 59 (2) ◽

pp. 230-245 ◽

Cited By ~ 24

Author(s):

Leila Farsakh

Keyword(s):

South African ◽

West Bank ◽

Gaza Strip ◽

The South ◽

The West ◽

Palestinian Territories ◽

The Past ◽

The Gaza Strip ◽

Shed Light

The Palestinian state remains an internationally endorsed project, yet an increasingly difficult one to implement. By analyzing the territorial, legal, and demographic developments that took place in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip over the past ten years, this article assesses the extent to which the prospective Palestinian state has become unattainable. A comparison between the South African apartheid experience and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is made to shed light on the ways in which the Palestinian territories are becoming analogous to Bantustans. While historical comparisons are never exact or prescriptive, they raise interesting parallels whose implications need to be considered, if not altered, in any attempt to materialize the project of viable Palestinian independence.

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Geopolitical Challenges, Complexities, and Future Uncertainties in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Land and Population’s Perspectives

New Middle Eastern Studies ◽

10.29311/nmes.v10i1.3630 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Hilmi S. Salem

Keyword(s):

Social Economic ◽

Gaza Strip ◽

Well Being ◽

Historical Background ◽

The Political ◽

Palestinian Territories ◽

Education And Health ◽

Main Determinants ◽

The Gaza Strip ◽

East Jerusalem

Geopolitical challenges, complexities, and future uncertainties have greatly and adversely affected all aspects of life, as well as the well-being of the Palestinian citizens living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), comprised of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. The OPT were militarily occupied by the Israeli forces in June 1967 and, since then, the Israeli military rules have been applied to the OPT. The demographic issues in the OPT have gained a great importance at the political, geopolitical, social, economic, environmental, educational, health-wise, and housing, as well as at other aspects of life. This is due to the fact that demographic issues, along with the land, are the main determinants of the Palestinian choices towards sustainable development in a future, sovereign, independent, stable, and secure state of Palestine to be established in the OPT, with East Jerusalem as its capital. So, because of the limited areas of land which Palestinians have access to; because of the limited natural resources that are available to them; and because of the narrowing of the political horizons and choices available to the Palestinians, the real Palestinian wealth in the OPT is the human being. This article investigates and analyses several geopolitical challenges, complexities, and future uncertainties in the OPT, with a focus on key demographic issues, including human trends and socioeconomic trends, which include marital status, housing, education, and health. Additionally, the article examines the historical background of the present situation. It also provides important recommendations and supporting elements towards developing Palestinian national policies related to the well-being of the Palestinian citizens and institutions within the OPT.

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Geopolitical Challenges, Complexities, and Future Uncertainties in the Occupied Palestinian Territories: Land and Population’s Perspectives

New Middle Eastern Studies ◽

10.29311/nmes.v10i1.3635 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Hilmi S. Salem

Keyword(s):

Social Economic ◽

Gaza Strip ◽

Well Being ◽

Historical Background ◽

The Political ◽

Palestinian Territories ◽

Education And Health ◽

Main Determinants ◽

The Gaza Strip ◽

East Jerusalem

Geopolitical challenges, complexities, and future uncertainties have greatly and adversely affected all aspects of life, as well as the well-being of the Palestinian citizens living in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT), comprised of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip. The OPT were militarily occupied by the Israeli forces in June 1967 and, since then, the Israeli military rules have been applied to the OPT. The demographic issues in the OPT have gained a great importance at the political, geopolitical, social, economic, environmental, educational, health-wise, and housing, as well as at other aspects of life. This is due to the fact that demographic issues, along with the land, are the main determinants of the Palestinian choices towards sustainable development in a future, sovereign, independent, stable, and secure state of Palestine to be established in the OPT, with East Jerusalem as its capital. So, because of the limited areas of land which Palestinians have access to; because of the limited natural resources that are available to them; and because of the narrowing of the political horizons and choices available to the Palestinians, the real Palestinian wealth in the OPT is the human being. This article investigates and analyses several geopolitical challenges, complexities, and future uncertainties in the OPT, with a focus on key demographic issues, including human trends and socioeconomic trends, which include marital status, housing, education, and health. Additionally, the article examines the historical background of the present situation. It also provides important recommendations and supporting elements towards developing Palestinian national policies related to the well-being of the Palestinian citizens and institutions within the OPT.

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