Muslim Brotherhood 'Den' Qatar will pay the salaries of 50,000 civil servants employed by Hamas pending nat elections.

Muslim Brotherhood 'Den' Qatar will pay the salaries of 50,000 civil servants employed by Hamas pending nat elections.(TOI).

Out of a total of some 110,000 civil servants employed in Gaza, approximately 50,000 were appointed by Hamas over the past seven years, said Mkhaimar Abusada, a political scientist at Al-Azhar University in Gaza. Twenty thousand of those are security men and the rest are civilians, a third of whom are employed through temporary contracts and earn just $300 a month. The average civil servant salary in Gaza is double that sum.

During the first unity government meeting in Ramallah Tuesday, PM Hamdallah promised that PA employees would receive their salaries as usual the following day, but Gaza civil servants would be paid through a joint committee comprising members from Fatah and Hamas.

“The money will not come from the coffers of the PA. It seems as though Qatar will donate these salaries until Palestinian elections are held,” Abusada said. “America and the Europeans who pay the PA salaries consider these [Gaza] employees part of Hamas, which they classify as a terror organization.”

Funding for Hamas employees is not the only touchy subject on the Palestinian table post-unity. On Monday, a Fatah official told The Times of Israel that the PLO would soon turn to Arab countries in search of funding for the families of security prisoners jailed in Israel.Hmmm....If you don't know where Qatar is it's where the Obama 'admin' just send the 'released Gitmo prisoners.Read the full story here.