GAZA, Jan. 23 (Xinhua) -- A senior Qatari diplomat arrived on Wednesday night in the Gaza Strip carrying the third financial installment of the Qatari grant, Palestinian security sources and local media in Gaza reported.

The sources and reports said that Mohammed Amadi, Chief of the Qatari Corporation to reconstruct Gaza, entered the Gaza Strip through Erez Crossing point coming from Israel and was carrying 15 million U.S. dollars in suitcases.

The cash money he was carrying is the third installment of Qatar's grant agreed for paying Gaza civil employees, who were nominated by Islamic Hamas movement after it had violently seized control of the Gaza Strip in 2007.

Paying the third installment of the Qatari cash money was delayed by Israel this week following a wave of tension that mounted on the border between eastern Gaza Strip and Israel, where one Hamas militant was killed and one Israeli army officer was moderately injured.

In November last year, Qatar, Egypt and the United Nations brokered a calm understanding between Israel and Hamas movement. The deal was to improve the daily living situation in the coastal enclave for achieving calm on the border with Israel.

Qatar agreed to pay 15 million dollars monthly for six months and also paid for fuels to operate the sole Gaza power station and increase the number of electricity hours to the populations in the enclave, all for calm and defusing tension between Israel and Hamas. Enditem

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