Global Peace Mission Malaysia (GPM), an international relief and development agency, will set up a special fund for the reconstruction effort in Gaza, Palestine, which came under heavy bombardment by Israel last month, GPM's president said on Wednesday.

The fund was to bear the cost of building desalination plants, boring of wells and a bakery, GPM's president Muhammad Nor Anuar Hashim said at a press conference.

"Although many parties are providing immediate relief effort to war-torn Gaza, we must also help the people in terms of the future," he said.

Two survey teams sent by GPM to Gaza recently found the people there were in dire need of the reconstruction on facilities, he added.