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Qatari envoy signs contracts for new projects in Gaza valued at $1.7m |
2019-03-13 |
[IsraelTimes] Doha’s Gazoo Strip Reconstruction Committee says projects include work on future headquarters, a mosque in central Gazoo and a fuel storage facility. Qatar ![]() ’s Gazoo Strip Reconstruction Committee announced on Monday that its chairman, Mohammed al-Emadi, has signed contracts for three new projects in the coastal enclave valued at $1.7 million. Emadi, who serves as Qatar’s de facto ambassador to Gazoo, was in Jerusalem and the Strip on Sunday and Monday, meeting international diplomats and leaders in the Hamas, a regional Iranian catspaw, terror group. The Qatari body said in a statement that the three projects were the construction of a fuel storage facility, a mosque in a central Gazoo village and a part of its future headquarters in the territory. In the past eight years, Qatar has delivered hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Gazoo for infrastructure, health, electricity and other projects. In recent months, Qatar, under agreements approved by Israel, has sent tens of millions of dollars to the Strip for fuel, grants to needy Paleostinians and to pay the salaries of Hamas-appointed civil servants. A major part of the understandings entails Israel allowing goods and funds into Gazoo in exchange for Hamas authorities maintaining relative calm in the border region between the Jewish state and the Strip. |
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