The meeting between Ismail Haneyya deputy chairman of the Hamas political bureau and the Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad ended on Sunday in the Qatari capital Doha with an urgent Qatari action to help solve the electricity crisis in Gaza.
According to Haneyya’s office an in-depth discussion was raised in the meeting on many issues on the political and living conditions in Gaza Strip in addition to some important issues especially the current electricity crisis in the Strip which was discussed in detail.
The office added that the positive results reached at the meeting confirm the supportive attitudes of Qatar toward the Palestinian cause and the Palestinian people especially in the besieged enclave.
The Emir of Qatar asked his government to act urgently and implement practical steps to solve the electricity crisis in the Gaza Strip on several levels.
Haneyya expressed his thanks to Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad and the state of Qatar for such brotherly and sincere actions.
In the same matter the Qatari ambassador and chairman of the Qatari Committee for the Reconstruction of Gaza Mohammed al-Emadi said that he called Zafer Melhem acting minister of the Energy Authority in Ramallah and informed him that the Emir of Qatar pledged to pay 4 million dollars per month for 3 months in support of Gaza’s electricity sector and to urgently alleviate the suffering of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
Al-Emadi affirmed in a press statement published by the Qatari Committee that the money will be urgently and immediately transferred to the account of the Palestinian Authority to mitigate the worsening crisis in the Gaza Strip according to the directives of the Qatari Emir.
He pointed out that intensive contacts are being conducted with the government the Energy Authority and the concerned authorities along with other mechanisms and proposals that are being examined currently to comprehensively address the crisis.
He stated that Bin Hamad’s directives came after the meeting held in his office at the Emiri Diwan in Doha with the former Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haneyya who is currently in Qatar to confer about the crisis and the proposed solutions.
The Gaza Strip is suffering from a severe electricity crisis that was aggravated by the onset of winter with only four hours of power supplied to inhabitants per day.
