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Sources close to Hamas had announced the landmark visit on Sunday, adding that a delegation from the energy-rich nation would be in Gaza Monday to prepare for the visit.
"The emir of Qatar will arrive in Gaza on Tuesday," a source close to the Hamas government told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
QNA said that the emir's wife, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, will be with him, as well as the Gulf nation's Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani.
It will be the first visit to the Palestinian enclave by an Arab leader since Hamas ousted the rival Fatah movement of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in June 2007.
Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told AFP Monday that the visit shows that the emir is backing the strip's Islamist Hamas rulers over the Western-backed authority led by Abbas.
"The emir has chosen his camp and it is not good," he said.
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"The emir of Qatar will arrive in Gaza on Tuesday," a source close to the Hamas government told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity.
QNA said that the emir's wife, Sheikha Moza bint Nasser, will be with him, as well as the Gulf nation's Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani.
It will be the first visit to the Palestinian enclave by an Arab leader since Hamas ousted the rival Fatah movement of Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in June 2007.
Israeli foreign ministry spokesman Yigal Palmor told AFP Monday that the visit shows that the emir is backing the strip's Islamist Hamas rulers over the Western-backed authority led by Abbas.
"The emir has chosen his camp and it is not good," he said.
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