...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates. Home of nutbag holy manYusuf al-Qaradawi...i funds, accusing Israel of imposing new conditions on the money entering the blockaded Paleostinian territory.
| So both the PA and Hamas have rejected funds? Glory hallelujah — I never thought this day would come! |
"We refuse to receive the third Qatari grant in response to the [Israeli] occupation's behaviour and attempts to evade the agreement," Khalil al-Hayya, Hamas's deputy head in Gazoo, told journalists on Thursday.
Al-Hayya did not mention the specific conditions that were changed but said Israel was playing politics with the funds ahead of upcoming elections.
Qatari aid to Gazoo expected in coming days, says report
Under an informal agreement struck in November, Gulf state Qatar has sent $15m a month into the strip.
The payment would have been the third of six planned tranches, totalling $90 million, in connection with the truce.
The funds to pay salaries of Hamas employees and support impoverished residents of Gazoo are in exchange for relative calm along the border, where protests have taken place since March 2018.
Israel's permission is required since the cash must be delivered via its territory.
Reporting from the Gazoo Strip, Al Jazeera's Charles Stratford said: "This reference to political blackmail, as Hamas is calling it, comes during election season in Israel".
"Hamas are refusing to accept these conditions because Israel is demanding that if these funds come through, there has to be a halt to protests."