EXCLUSIVE: Israel to boost fresh water supply in Gaza with plant upgrade as UN warns it may suspend aid

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The United Nations helped initiate the construction of the plant in 2018, but the capacity remained at around 1,500 cubic meters per day, which fell far short of needed levels.

EXCLUSIVE - As the United Nations threatens to suspend aid to operations across the Gaza Strip, Fox News Digital has exclusively learned that Israel plans to activate a desalination plant that will increase fresh water access in the region. 'Israel will increase the electricity supply to the desalination facility in Khan Yunis by building new electricity power lines,' an Israeli security official told Fox News Digital.

officials clarified that there has been no final decision and talks remain ongoing as they seek a solution to their concerns. U.N. spokesman Stéphane Dujarric told reporters in New York that U.N. humanitarian coordinator Muhannad Hadi had written to the Israeli military on June 17 and the U.N.’s undersecretary for security, Gilles Michaud, spoke with Israeli military officials Monday.

Dujarric called conditions for aid workers in the territory 'increasingly intolerable.' But he said the U.N. was 'pushing all its contacts' with the Israelis to resolve the problems and noted that 'the U.N. will not turn its back on the people of Gaza.' Fox News' Yonat Friling and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

 

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