Two-State Solution Needed to Finance Rebuilding Gaza, Qatar Says

  • Al Thani says it will be hard to attract international funding
  • Qatar concerned that Israel-Hamas war will escalate regionally

Residents inspect damage at the Al-Maghazi refugee camp after an overnight air strike.

Photographer: Mahmud Hams/AFP/Getty Images
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Financial aid to rebuild Gaza will be hard to attract unless the key issue of a two-state solution for the Palestinians and Israelis is properly addressed, Qatar’s prime minister said.

Some international pledges to provide funding for the Mediterranean enclave in previous years haven’t materialized because “most countries don’t believe in the sustainability of the situation,” Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani said at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday.