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75,000 Gaza families to receive Qatar aid

December 23, 2019 at 2:15 pm

Palestinians retrieve money at a post office in Gaza City, Gaza on 26 January 2019 [Ali Jadallah/Anadolu Agency]

Qatar’s Ambassador Mohammed Al Emadi today announced that the monthly payment for 75,000 Palestinian families in Gaza will be distributed tomorrow.

In a statement published on the website of the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of the Gaza Strip the ambassador said that the families are to get their payments from post offices across the Gaza Strip.

Each family will receive $100.

He stated that the previous mechanisms for choosing which families would receive the aid will be applied to the new payment, noting that the criteria was decided in cooperation with the Palestinian Ministry of Social Welfare in Gaza.

Qatar says its Gaza aid to continue through March 2020 at least