Here is a blast from the past. Following a 2014 Hamas attack on Israel (that nobody remembers) the nations ponied up $5.4 billion to rebuild GAZA.
The GAZA business model is to attack Israel every so many years so that the bleeding hearts send them money to rebuild.
Hopefully, no mas this time around.
U.S. And Other Nations Pledge $5.4 Billion To Rebuild Gaza
October 12, 2014
At a Cairo aid conference to help rebuild Gaza, Secretary of State John Kerry paused to rub his eyes Sunday. The U.S. is promising another $212 million in aid.
A one-day conference in Cairo has brought pledges of some $5.4 billion to help rebuild Gaza, the Palestinian territory whose infrastructure was crippled in 50 days of fighting between Hamas and Israel. The figure far surpasses an estimate from Palestinians who said the rebuilding project would cost $4 billion. U.S. officials had expressed doubt the meeting would yield that figure.
Envoys from dozens of donor nations gathered in Egypt Sunday to discuss Gaza’s future. But the group did not include Israel — as the newspaper Haaretz reports, “Egyptian officials had feared that many Arab states, especially Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, would cancel if they knew an Israeli would attend.”
We’ve updated the top of this post to reflect the results of the meeting, after Norwegian Foreign Minister Borge Brende said in his closing statement that the session had brought promises of $5.4 billion for Gaza’s reconstruction effort.
Qatar was the biggest contributor, pledging $1 billion; both Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates promised $200 million, as did Turkey. Other large donors included the European Union, with $568 million. The U.S. promised $212 million, bringing its total aid to Palestinians this year to $400 million.
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THE head honchos of HAMAS live in Qatar
