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Israel/ Palestine

Qatar Convinces Israel, Hamas to let it Aid 94,000 Poor Gaza Families

Middle East Monitor 01/27/2019

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The Palestinian government in Gaza announced yesterday that it would pay $100 to 94,000 poor families in the Gaza Strip, noting that this is part of the Qatari funds given to the besieged enclave.

It is still unclear how and when this issue was agreed, but the government in Gaza called for the poor families registered in its records to head to the government banks to receive the payments, starting from Saturday morning.

The government published directions on its website explaining to the families how to look for their names and find out whether they were enlisted for the payment or not before heading to the banks.

From the early morning today, thousands of Palestinians stood in queues at the doors of the government banks, which started paying them the money.

Commentators have been left confused by the move, with Israeli journalist Leor Levy asking: “Where did this development come?” He added: “There is something taking place behind closed doors, or someone asked the Qataris to change their minds.”

Safa news agency in Gaza confirmed that the government banks started paying the money and published pictures for the Qatari Committee’s staff monitoring the payments inside the government banks.

Palestinian factions in Gaza, including Hamas, which on Thursday refused to receive the Qatari funds under “humiliating” Israeli conditions, are keeping silent regarding the payment.

This work by Middle East Monitor is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Via Middle East Monitor

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Middle East Monitor is a not-for-profit press monitoring organization, founded on 1 July 2009, and based in London. Journalists who have written for it include Amelia Smith, Diana Alghoul, Ben White, Jehan Alfarra and Jessica Purkiss. The editorial line straddles the British left and the British Muslim religious Right.

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