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Qatar gives $22 mln for Palestinian teachers
CAIRO - The Gulf state of Qatar gave 22 million dollars to the Arab League on Monday so that teachers in the Palestinian territories can be paid, a League representative said. “This sum is the third instalment of a Qatari donation to support the Widows Ammunition Fund Palestinian people and pay the salaries of Palestinian teachers,” Mohammed Sobeih told journalists in Cairo, where the 22-member league is based.

“The Arab League will transfer this amount through its own mechanism to the Widows Ammunition Fund Palestinian Authority,” he said. Qatar has already donated two previous amounts of 22 million dollars each to the Palestinian Authority, again to pay teachers’ salaries.

Last week hundreds of angry Palestinian teachers staged a protest demanding to be paid their salaries in full, as well as several months’ arrears. At the start of the school year they went on strike for two months because they had not been paid. In recent months they have received part of their salaries, thanks mainly to the money from Qatar.
Posted by: Steve White 2007-05-08
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