Israel announces the start of an Emirati project to extend a water pipeline from Egypt to Gaza.

The Israeli military claimed, in a statement issued by the Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), that "based on directives from the political echelon, the military approved several weeks ago an Emirati initiative to extend a water pipeline from a desalination plant in Egypt to the Mawasi area along the coast, with the aim of supplying some 600,000 residents of the area with water, independently of the water pipelines coming from Israel."

The statement added that "UAE representatives began bringing in project equipment from Egypt today, under strict security supervision and inspection, via the Kerem Shalom crossing, which is affiliated with the Land Crossings Authority of the Ministry of Defense." The statement noted that work on implementing the water pipeline "will begin in the coming days and will take several weeks."

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