DOHA, March 26 (Reuters) - Qatar called on Tuesday for the immediate establishment of a $1 billion fund to help Palestinians in Arab East Jerusalem, and offered to contribute $250 million to it.

Qatar's Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, made the proposal at the opening of an Arab summit in Doha that is expected to focus on the crisis in Syria and stalled Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking.

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Since 2010, 235 internationally sponsored projects have been approved for the benefit of the civilian population in Gaza.

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About 70,000 people have been displaced following an inter-tribal conflict in the Jebel Amir gold mining area.

DOHA, Jan 3 (KUNA) -- Qatar decided on Thursday to house a number of Syrian families and widows displaced by military operations carried out by the regime in Syria against civilians.

The Qatari news agency said that upon the directives of the Amir of Qatar, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani and as part of Qatar's efforts to alleviate the suffering of the displaced Syrian people, Qatar decided to house a number of families and widows displaced by military operations carried out by the regime there.

DOHA, 5 December 2012 (IRIN) - In the last three decades, 50 million people in the Arab world have been affected by natural disasters, many of them extreme climate events, according to a new report by the World Bank. The report projects the horrific scenario of temperatures regularly rising over 50 degrees Celsius by the turn of the century, which experts fear could lead to countless more disasters.

DUBAÏ, 29 novembre 2012 (IRIN) - L'Organisation mondiale de la santé (OMS) a lancé une alerte mondiale suite à l'apparition d'un virus ressemblant au Syndrome respiratoire aigu sévère (SRAS), un virus potentiellement mortel, en Arabie saoudite et au Qatar, où six personnes ont été infectées.

Sur les six cas confirmés en laboratoire, deux se sont avérés mortels, laissant craindre une épidémie similaire à celle de SRAS de 2002-03, qui avait fait environ 800 victimes sur les 8 000 personnes infectées.

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DOHA, Nov 17, 2012 (AFP) - Qatar is to give Egypt $10 million (7.8 million euros) to help treat Palestinians wounded in Israeli air strikes on the neighbouring Gaza Strip, state news agency QNA reported on Saturday.

The oil-rich Gulf nation will also send emergency aid including medical equipment and medicines to Hamas-controlled Gaza, it said.

Qatari ruler Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani made the decision on a visit to Cairo to meet President Mohamed Morsi to discuss the Gaza crisis, it said.

SITUATION OVERVIEW

• Consolidated and Flash appeals in the MENA region received US$1.07 billion. The largest recipient was Yemen, with US$317 million, followed by oPt with US$276 million. In total, the appeals are 45% funded with a short fall of 55%.

• The requirements for the Syria Regional Response Plan have been revised to US$488 million. The plan includes Turkey, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq and is currently 29% funded.