Gaza Aid

A number of Gulf states pledged money for the reconstruction of Gaza during a donor conference in Cairo on 12 October. The UAE and Kuwait each said they would give $200m, while Qatari foreign minister Khalid Bin Mohammed Al-Attiyah promised $1bn. Qatar’s state news agency said Emir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani had received telephone calls from Hamas president Khaled Mishaal and Hamas vice-president Ismail Haniyeh, thanking him. Norwegian foreign minister Borge Brende, who co-chaired the donor conference with Egypt, said pledges of $5.4bn had been promised in total – more than the target $4bn – and that half of those funds would be dedicated to the reconstruction of Gaza.