Qatar Offers $12mn to Support Gazans

Date: 22 February 2020 - 22:54

News ID: ۷۶۴۱۶

GAZA STRIP (Dispatches) – Qatar has agreed to offer 12 million U.S. dollars to support people in the Gaza Strip, Palestinian resistance movement Hamas has said in a press statement.
The agreement was reached between Qatar and Hamas, in a meeting held in the coastal enclave between Qatari Ambassador Mohammad el-Amadi and Hamas leader in Gaza Yehya Sinwar, according to the statement.
El-Amadi, who heads the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza, arrived in the Gaza Strip on Thursday night and is scheduled to stay in the enclave for several days, sources in the Qatari committee said.
The two sides agreed that Qatar will provide 100 dollars in cash for each of 120,000 poor families in the Gaza Strip.
They also agreed that Qatar pay 2 million dollars to enable 500 young Gazans to get married, 1 million dollars for poor families to renovate their homes and 1 million dollars for graduates to cover their overdue tuition fees.
The Gaza Strip has been under an Israeli blockade since June 2007. It has caused a decline in the standard of living as well as unprecedented levels of unemployment and unrelenting poverty.
The occupying regime has imposed three major wars against Gaza, killing thousands of people each time and shattering the impoverished territory’s already poor infrastructure.
The economic situation across Palestine worsened after the U.S. cut all its financial aid for Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and Gaza in 2019.
The cuts in the humanitarian aid hit hundreds of thousands of the most vulnerable people, especially in Gaza, where 80 percent are dependent on aid.