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 “The Arab League will transfer this amount through its own mechanism to the
Last week hundreds of angry Palestinian teachers staged a protest demanding to be paid their salaries in full, as well as several monthsÂ’ 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.