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<p>The UK has regular discussions with the UN, the Office of the Quartet Representative
(OQR) and other partners who are working on this issue. A desalination plant can only
be built, however, with increased imports of construction materials, and would only
be effective with a reliable and sufficient power supply in Gaza. The UK has provided
£500,000 for the Gaza Reconstruction Mechanism with the objective of enabling reconstruction
to take place at the scale required. In addition, and in close co-ordination with
our EU partners and the OQR, we continue to press the Israeli Government at ministerial
and official level to ease the restrictions on Gaza, and to take actions which will
improve the chronic energy and water shortages there.</p><p> </p>
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