Yahoo – AFP,
27 Aug 2014
Doha (AFP) - Key Hamas backer Qatar hailed a Tuesday ceasefire that ended seven weeks of conflict in and around Gaza and offered to throw its huge gas earnings behind reconstruction efforts.
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Palestinian family return to their destroyed home with their belongings in the
northern Gaza Strip city of Beit Hanun on August 27, 2014 (AFP Photo/
Mohammed
Abed)
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Doha (AFP) - Key Hamas backer Qatar hailed a Tuesday ceasefire that ended seven weeks of conflict in and around Gaza and offered to throw its huge gas earnings behind reconstruction efforts.
Qatar,
which hosts the Palestinian Islamist movement's exiled leader Khaled Meshaal,
paid tribute to the "resistance and the sacrifices" of the
Palestinians in 50 days of conflict with Israel.
It said it
was "ready to contribute to the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip as soon
as possible," without giving any figure.
The
ceasefire deal agreed on Tuesday between a Palestinian delegation, including
Hamas, and Israel provides for a simultaneous opening of border crossings to
aid and reconstruction supplies.
The head of
the 57-member Islamic bloc welcomed Tuesday's ceasefire and expressed hope it
would lead to a resumption of Middle East peace negotiations, broken off
earlier this year despite desperate US mediation efforts.
The
ceasefire must present a first step towards "restarting negotiations to
achieve a just and comprehensive peace agreement," said Organisation of
Islamic Cooperation secretary general Iyad Madani.
The
conflict, which began on July 8 when Israel launched Operation Protective Edge
in a bid to stamp out cross-border rocket fire, cost the lives of 2,143
Palestinians and 70 on the Israeli side.
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