• Email Us: [email protected]
  • Contact Us: +1 718 874 1545
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Medical Market Report

  • Home
  • All Reports
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

Qatar plans to resume Gaza funding with new method involving Abbas, U.N

September 6, 2021 by David Barret Leave a Comment

September 6, 2021

By Nidal al-Mughrabi

GAZA (Reuters) – Qatar will soon resume funding for civil servants and poor families in the Gaza Strip under a new mechanism involving the Western-backed Palestinian Authority and the United Nations, the Gulf state’s aid envoy said on Monday.

Doha has underwritten Gaza rebuilding and infrastructure projects since the 2014 war between the Palestinian enclave’s Islamist Hamas rulers and Israel, but another round of fighting in May prompted Israeli and U.S. demands to revise the payouts.

Envoy Mohammed Al-Emadi said after meeting Hamas leaders in Gaza that Qatari stipends for civil servants and poor families, suspended since May, would resume in coming days.

Gas-rich Qatar used to spend $30 million per month to help operate the enclave’s lone power plant and to support needy families and Hamas-hired public servants.

Hamas, blacklisted as a terrorist group in the West, has endorsed a new payment mechanism involving the rival Palestinian Authority (PA) of President Mahmoud Abbas as well as the United Nations, Al-Emadi said in a statement.

He did not elaborate.

Israeli officials had previously said that the PA- and U.N.-led mechanism could involve disbursing the Qatari aid as vouchers rather than cash, as a safeguard against Hamas diverting the money to military needs.

COGAT, the Israeli Defence Ministry agency for liaising with the Palestinians, declined comment on the Qatari announcement.

Emadi said the new agreement also entails full opening of border crossings with Gaza, which Israel and neighbouring Egypt keep cordoned off. There was no immediate word on when this might happen.

The hold-up in Qatari payouts had fuelled rancour in aid-dependant Gaza, which in recent days has seen increasingly violent border confrontations with Israel.

Emadi voiced hope that the resumption of payouts and a full border opening “will have a clear and positive impact on improving the living reality in Gaza Strip (and) help all parties emerge from the tense situation”.

Qatar and Egypt have both promised funds to help rebuild the Palestinian territory. Having already pumped more than $1 billion into Gaza projects since 2014, Qatar pledged another $500 million in late May.

(Additional reporting by Nadine Awadalla; Editing by Maher Chmaytelli, Kevin Liffey and Andrew Cawthorne)

Source Link Qatar plans to resume Gaza funding with new method involving Abbas, U.N

David Barret
David Barret

Related posts:

  1. Best WordPress hosting of 2021
  2. Inflation shock and ECB hawks keep euro near 1-month high
  3. Soccer-Ronaldo claims world record with late late show
  4. U.N. warns catastrophe looms in Ethiopia’s north, urges government to end de facto aid blockade

Filed Under: News

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

  • The World’s Tiniest Snake Was Lost To Science For 20 Years. Now, It’s Back, And We Have Photos
  • Terror Bird’s Mangled Leg Suggests It Died In The Jaws Of A Caiman 15 Million Years Ago
  • How Do Americans Really Feel About Diversity And Multiculturalism?
  • First Female Same-Sex Behavior Seen In Crickets, But Only Because We’ve Not Been Looking
  • How Do Rockets Move In Space If There Is No Medium To Push Against?
  • Natural Antidepressants: Legit Alternative Or A Load Of Nonsense?
  • 247-Million-Year-Old Punky Reptile Had A Mohawk Made Of Weird Appendages
  • Solid Gold Superheated To 14 Times Its Melting Point, Bypassing The “Entropy Catastrophe”
  • Water Tornadoes Are Surprisingly Good At Modeling Planetary Formation
  • Missing 40 Percent Of Matter In The Universe Finally Discovered: “The Simulations Were Right All Along”
  • “The Fox That Rescued The Storm God”: 4,400-Year-Old Sumerian Tablet With Previously Unknown Myth Analyzed For First Time
  • Why Does The Sky Turn Green When A Thunderstorm Is Brewing?
  • Africa’s Lake Bosumtwi Has Extraterrestrial Origins
  • Earth May Have Over 6 Temporary “Mini-Moons” At Any Given Time. They’re Made Of Moon
  • We Finally Know How The Brain Wakes Up – And Why It Sometimes Sucks So Much
  • Leonardo Da Vinci’s Flying Machine Is Better Than Modern Drones For Noise And Power
  • Should You Wash Your Chicken?
  • The Drunk Hypothesis: Did Booze Enable The Rise Of Human Civilization?
  • Some Sharks Can Walk, Because Apparently One Mode Of Transportation Isn’t Enough
  • Black Olives Aren’t What You Think They Are
  • Business
  • Health
  • News
  • Science
  • Technology
  • +1 718 874 1545
  • +91 78878 22626
  • [email protected]
Office Address
Prudour Pvt. Ltd. 420 Lexington Avenue Suite 300 New York City, NY 10170.

Powered by Prudour Network

Copyrights © 2025 · Medical Market Report. All Rights Reserved.

Go to mobile version