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Gazan Anger at Qatari Plans to Build Envoy's House on National Monument for Yasser Arafat
(The National-Abu Dhabi) Muhammad Shehada - In 2017, Qatar announced its intention to build a new headquarters in Gaza for its "Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza" along with a villa residence for its ambassador, Dr. Mohammed Al Emadi. The only problem was that the location was the Al Ansar Military Compound, which housed the Gaza office and helipad of historic leader Yasser Arafat. The location had been turned into a training site for security forces and a national monument, with the helicopter that he used at its center, decorated with a Palestinian flag. The initial Qatari announcement of the project stirred enormous controversy and several leading political figures asked Qatar to terminate the project. However, on Tuesday Qatar's ambassador restarted the project and signed construction orders for the first phase of building.