UAE Will Fund Hamas
Charles Johnson
Wed Mar 22, 2006 at 9:57 am PST • Views: 208
Our friends in the United Arab Emirates have assured Khaled Meshaal that their oil money will keep flowing to Hamas: Hamas assured of continued UAE aid for Palestinians.
DUBAI (AFP) - The militant group Hamas said it was assured that the United Arab Emirates would continue to provide financial aid to the Palestinians under a Hamas-led government.
A Hamas delegation led by political chief Khaled Meshaal was told during talks in Abu Dhabi that the oil-rich UAE would “go on providing financial aid to the Palestinian people and their Hamas-led government,” delegation member Ezzat al-Reshq told AFP on Wednesday.
Reshq said the Emirati side headed by Presidential Affairs Minister Sheikh Mansur bin Zayed al-Nahayan also promised to “continue to sponsor and support infrastructure projects in the occupied Palestinian territories.”
The UAE has funded housing projects in the territories, footing the bill for the reconstruction of some homes demolished by the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip and in the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank.
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