{"id":34909,"date":"2019-03-11T18:21:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T18:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34909"},"modified":"2019-03-11T18:21:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T18:21:49","slug":"palestinians-in-gaza-receive-new-qatari-aid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=34909","title":{"rendered":"Palestinians in Gaza receive new Qatari aid"},"content":{"rendered":"<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-io-article-url=\"http:\/\/www.arabnews.com\/node\/1465031\/middle-east\" readability=\"52\">\n<p>\nGAZA: Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza began receiving $100 payouts from Qatar on Monday, the latest tranche of funds under an informal deal between the territory\u2019s Islamist rulers Hamas and Israel.<br \/>A flare-up of violence along the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip this month has threatened another escalation between the two sides, but the Qatari cash could help ease tensions.<br \/>Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday warned Hamas he would not hesitate to launch a \u201clarge-scale operation\u201d in Gaza.<br \/>Many analysts however believe he wants to avoid a conflict with unpredictable results while campaigning for re-election in Israel\u2019s April 9 polls.<br \/>The Qatari Gaza Reconstruction Committee, in a statement, said \u201cdisbursement began Monday of the fourth payment of cash assistance to poor families in the Gaza Strip.\u201d<br \/>In total 55,000 families in the strip would receive payments of $100 each.<br \/>Thousands of Palestinians could be seen queueing early at post offices across Gaza.<br \/>\u201cI am here to receive $100, but $100 does not solve the crisis,\u201d said Bassam Khalil Jaber, 40. \u201cWe need permanent solutions, and this grant is a temporary solution.\u201d<br \/>In November, the Gulf state, which is a longtime Hamas ally, committed to around $15 million a month in aid over six months.<br \/>In exchange, Hamas committed to relative calm along the Israeli border, which has been rocked by often violent Hamas-backed protests since March 2018.<br \/>But the deal became a major bone of political contention in Israel \u2014 whose territory was used for delivery of the cash \u2014 and also in Gaza.<br \/>Part of the funds were originally used to pay salaries of Hamas employees, but this was stopped after political criticism in Israel.<br \/>Instead much of the money will be funneled into cash for work programs with the United Nations.<br \/>The impoverished strip, which has a population of around two million, has been under a crippling Israeli blockade for more than a decade.<br \/>Israel says it is necessary to isolate Hamas but critics say it amounts to collective punishment of residents of the densely-populated coastal territory.<br \/>The two sides have fought three wars since 2008.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GAZA: Tens of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza began receiving $100 payouts from Qatar on Monday, the latest tranche of funds under an informal deal between the territory\u2019s Islamist rulers Hamas and Israel.A flare-up of violence along the border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip this month has threatened another escalation between the two&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}