The pipeline can move up to one billion cubic meters (35 billion cubic feet) of fuel from the Negev to Gaza per year, allowing the structure and operation of local power plants capable of meeting almost all Gaza’s force needs.
Plans for the pipeline have been underway since 2015, but have been hampered by cross-border violence and political considerations on both sides.
Al-Emadi said he plans to meet with UN Special Envoy for the Middle East, Nickolay Mladenov, on Tuesday.
Al-Emadi will also distribute $17 million in aid to families in the Gaza Strip from the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, Qatar’s Gaza Reconstruction Committee said in a statement.
About $7 million will be distributed to those whose livelihoods have been affected by the coronavirus pandemic, while $10 million will be donated to “needy families,” al-Emadi said.
The number is lower than in the past filtered through Hamas anonymous resources to the Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar, which allegedly saw up to $40 million in Qatari aid distributed to the Gaza Strip.
Also under the agreement, around 20,000 new coronavirus control kits will be provided to the Gaza Strip, as well as a complex coronavirus control device, according to al-Emadi. coronavirus control even when the number of outdoor quarantine cases increased.