The United Arab Emirates on Friday opened a 7.5-kilometer (4.7-mile) pipeline to channel desalinated water from plants it has built in Egypt to the southern Gaza Strip, where nearly two years of war have devastated infrastructure and compounded already existing shortages of clean drinking water.

Dubbed “Operation Chivalrous Knight 3,” the pipeline can carry a daily 7,570 cubic meters (two million gallons), according to a statement by the Emirati news agency, WAM.

It is connected to the Al-Buraq reservoir in Khan Younis, which has a capacity of 5,000 cubic meters (1.32 million gallons) and is expected to provide clean water to hundreds of thousands of........

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