Hamas and Israel reached March 30 humanitarian understandings under Egyptian brokerage aimed at easing the Gaza Strip's living conditions by solving the electricity problem, opening crossings, bringing in more goods and distributing financial aid to poor families.
Adnan Abu Hasna, a Gaza-based spokesman for the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Gaza Strip (UNRWA), announced April 9 that a temporary employment process extending over three to nine months has kicked off. The process, he said, aims to fill 6,400 job vacancies with Qatari funding.
