(Reuters) Nidal al-Mughrabi - Qatar on Tuesday launched a $254 million plan to rebuild and modernize Gaza, starting with a highway that will run the Strip's length. The Qatar project will renew three main roads, establish a new town, build a hospital and residential buildings and overhaul the infrastructure. Hamas' ties to Shi'ite Muslim Iran have loosened over the past year and it has grown closer to the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood which now governs Egypt and the conservative Arab Gulf state of Qatar.
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