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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
World
Will Weissert

War-hammered Gaza needs basics like homes, roads and power. FIFA is offering a $50M soccer stadium

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The Gaza Strip is in ruins with entire city neighborhoods reduced to rubble and serious questions about rebuilding basic water and sewage facilities, roads, electrical grids and the critical infrastructure needed to consistently produce enough food to prevent widespread starvation.

But a gleaming new national soccer stadium for an area devastated by two-plus years of war between Israel and Hamas? That's covered — or so promises the sport's international governing body.

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