The damage to transportation and communications infrastructure across the Palestinian territory has reached $4.8bn as a result of direct Israeli attacks, news agency reported Palestine’s Minister of Transport and Communications Tariq Zourob as saying. At least 300,000 tonnes of “solid waste” are reportedly on the roads across the Gaza Strip, Zourob said according to during a meeting with private sector representatives from the Strip at the Palestinian embassy in Cairo. In June, UNRWA reported waste of an estimated 100,000 tonnes building up near people’s tents in central Gaza alone.