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The organization highlights the extreme devastation of infrastructure and the ongoing blockade of Gaza, which has rendered the area uninhabitable. It calls on governments to fund Gaza's reconstruction based on Palestinian sovereignty, cease arms exports to Israel, and fulfill obligations to the International Criminal Court (ICC). 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It argues that these market-based approaches are 'worse than nothing' because they provide an illusion of progress while bypassing the mitigation hierarchy. 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