Thousands of impoverished Gazans received $100 payments from Qatar on Saturday, AFP journalists said, after the Gulf emirate brought in over $9 million in aid funds for the Palestinian territory. Hundreds of people queued at post offices in the Gaza Strip to each collect a $100 bill. Palestinian media earlier quoted the Qatari ambassador to Gaza as saying the money would go to Gaza's poor.

"The Qatari grant for needy families will enter Gaza Saturday and be distributed... to 94,000 families," Mohammed al-Emadi was quoted as saying. Half the funds would be distributed Saturday and the rest Sunday, he said, with each family receiving $100.

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