# SUMMARY
- Since the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, the Gulf state of Qatar has supplied money to the Gaza Strip
- Qatar has vowed not to stop those payments
- “We’re not going to change our mandate. Our mandate is our continuous help and support for our brothers and sisters of Palestine. We will continue to do it systematically as we did it before,” → Qatari Minister of State for Foreign Affairs
- Some $15 million were sent into Gaza in cash-filled suitcases
- Done after months of negotiation with Israel; done by moving within Israeli grounds
- Israel approved the deal in a security cabinet meeting in August 2018.
- some belief that it would “weaken Palestinian sovereignty,”
- Another illusion that giving Hamas money would tame them
- empowered Hamas helped Netanyahu avoid negotiating over a Palestinia
- therefore, avoids pressure for peace talks that could lead to establishing an independent Palestinian state.
- Netanyahu has come under increasing criticism as the depth of his government’s involvement in the move, as well as the motivations for it → criticized severely
# Conclusion
- The most affected people are the government and Netanyahu. He was involved minimally in the process of looking over the aid’s whereabouts and route; the end result has transfigured into a more brutal fight. The indirectly affected people are the people who backed out of supporting countries (such as Iran), and Qatar is the only one providing aid; the original plan was that 5 countries would provide aid.
- This event is important because it shows that the current situation of how the aid initiative has left Qatar hanging in, with nowhere to go, and extremely much of a failure. In addition, the Israelis did not consider the aftermath and future problems of this aid-provision initiative when allowing this initially.
- This article shows the current situation we are in. We have underestimated the aids Qataris could provide and the whole target of this program was to lessen the effect of the attacks, but it has worsened by much.