Iran has escalated its efforts to aid the reconstruction of Gaza Strip, Iran's satellite Press TV website reported on Saturday.

Tehran enhanced its efforts to aid the reconstruction of Gaza by discussing the issue with senior officials in Damascus and Jakarta, the report said.

In two separate phone calls with Indonesian and Syrian parliament speakers, Agung Laksono and Mahmoud Abrash respectively, Iran's Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani consulted ways that the three countries could develop to reconstruct the war-torn Gaza.

The Asian Parliamentary Assembly (APA) formed a troika comprised of Iran, Indonesia and Syria during the third APA meeting, which was held in Jakarta in last November, to help the people of Gaza who were under the Israeli-imposed blockade of food, medicines and fuel since June 2007.

Larijani called on "the troika to urge all 40 APA members to help Palestinians rebuild their lives by taking feasible action," proposing that "the troika's next meeting on Gaza be held in the devastated coastal strip."

Reportedly, all schools in the war-battered Gaza Strip reopened Saturday, a week after Israel ended the 22-day large-scale military offensive on the enclave.

UN aid agency for Palestinian refugees UNRWA spokesman Adnan Abu Hasna said that during the Israeli war on Gaza Strip, the United Nations opened 36 schools all over the strip to shelter around 40,000 people who had their homes destroyed.

Israel has recently loosened its restrictions on the flow of humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Aid agencies welcomed the lifting of the restrictions by Israel, but warned that the task ahead was "enormous", with vast amounts of building materials alone needed to help rebuild schools, hospitals, mosques and homes.

Israel carried out an unprecedented military assault on Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip on December 27, 2008, killing around 1,334 people and injuring 5,450 others.