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Qatar Funds Salaries, Electricity in Gaza
(Wall Street Journal) Felicia Schwartz and Abu Bakr Bashir - Israel has allowed funds from Qatar to be used to pay Hamas government employees in Gaza and to provide $100 handouts to 50,000 families. In addition, Qatar has supplied enough fuel to Gaza to provide the residents with 16 hours a day of electricity for the first time in five years. The improving conditions coincide with stepped-up efforts by Egypt and the UN to broker a lasting cease-fire between Israel and Hamas.