War: New water pipeline supplies Gaza Strip from Egypt

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New water pipeline supplies Gaza Strip from Egypt

Palestinian children carry water in a makeshift tent camp. photo

© Fatima Shbair/AP/dpa

The humanitarian situation in Gaza is catastrophic. Everything is missing. Now, however, there is a small ray of hope.

A new pipeline supplies it Gaza Strip out of Egypt with water. As the official news agency of the United Arab Emirates (WAM) announced, around 2,271 cubic meters of seawater from the Mediterranean will be processed every day by three desalination plants. This could provide up to 300,000 people in the Gaza Strip with water. For comparison: water consumption in Berlin is around 436,000 cubic meters per day.

The desalination plants are connected to the Gaza Strip via a 900-meter-long pipeline, WAM reported. The systems were financed by the United Arab Emirates. A few days ago, a delegation from the UN Security Council visited the border town of Rafah. The children’s aid organization Unicef ​​reported on Wednesday that there was a catastrophic water supply for hundreds of thousands in the Gaza Strip.

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