Qatar distributes funds to Gaza's low-income families
Qatar distributes funds to Gaza's low-income families
Thousands of Palestinian low-income families in the besieged Gaza Strip received payments from Qatar on Sunday, locals said.
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About 95,000 low-income families queued at post offices in the impoverished coastal enclave to receive financial aid. (Getty)
Thousands of Palestinian low-income families in the besieged Gaza Strip received payments from Qatar on Sunday, local reports said.
Some 95,000 Palestinian families living in the besieged enclave will be entitled to receive the financial aid.
Qatar's Gaza Reconstruction Committee (GRC) chief Mohammed Al-Emadi, Doha's ambassador to the enclave, said on Thursday that the GRC will work with the Qatar Fund for Development in handing out February's funds.
The funds were given out by the United Nations and more than 300 UN-selected shops and commercial centres, Doha's ambassador said.
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Qatar had pledged to send $15 million to Gaza monthly as part of an informal agreement between Israel and Gaza’s Islamist governing party, Hamas, reached in 2019.
Under that deal Israel allowed the grants to go through its territory in exchange for relative calm on the Gaza border.
Hamas took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007 after success in elections. In response, Israel besieged the enclave in a tight blockade, which has decimated Gaza's economy, on top of causing chronic shortages of drinking water, food and fuel for the enclave's two million residents.
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