Qatari cash reaches Gaza in effort to ease tensions Palestinian civil servants wait in long queues at a post office in Gaza City to receive Qatari-funded salaries, as part of efforts to ease tensions in and around the impoverished territory. A total of $90 million is to be distributed in six monthly instalments of $15 million, according to authorities, primarily to cover salaries of officials working for Hamas, the Islamist movement that rules the Palestinian enclave. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES