U.N. agencies have long warned that it could take decades to rebuild Gaza after Israel’s offensive against Hamas. Now, a new report speaks in terms of centuries.

Mountains of rubble laced with decomposing bodies and unexploded ordnance would have to be cleared before rebuilding could begin.

A UN report has warned that it could take centuries to rebuild Gaza following Israel’s offensive against Hamas, one of the deadliest and most destructive military campaigns since the Second World War.

Haitian gangs are ramping up attacks on areas they do not yet control, the head of the United Nation's Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) warned on Tuesday, after days of renewed violence from an alliance of armed gangs in the Caribbean nation.

At least two women, including one who was eight months pregnant, were killed and 5,000 people displaced as Haitian gangs attacked neighborhoods in the impoverished Caribbean nation's capital, its Civil Protection agency said Monday.

Two women were killed in attacks carried out by Haitian gang coalition. More than 700,000 people, half of them children, have been forced to flee their homes.