{"id":547050,"date":"2026-01-27T15:07:24","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/547050\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:07:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:07:24","slug":"qatar-says-it-will-provide-lebanon-with-430-million-in-financial-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/547050\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar says it will provide Lebanon with $430 million in financial support"},"content":{"rendered":"

A statement by Qatar’s Fund for Development said about $400 million would be provided to support Lebanon’s energy sector, of which 10% would be allocated as a grant.<\/p>\n

Qatar<\/a> will provide Lebanon with about $434 million in financial support, with most of it aimed at the country’s ailing energy sector, according to Qatar’s Fund for Development.<\/p>\n

Qatar has been providing the Lebanese army with grants for fuel and salaries. Lebanon needs foreign funds to help meet a huge reconstruction bill from the 2024 war between Israel and Lebanese terror group Hezbollah, in which Israeli air strikes flattened swathes of the country.<\/p>\n

Even before the conflict, Lebanon had been struggling for years with a severe shortage of imported fuel and poor infrastructure.<\/p>\n

A fund statement said about $400 million would be provided to support the energy sector, of which 10% had been allocated as a grant. The financial support would also aim to bolster the Lebanese army’s capacities and those of other sectors.<\/p>\n

Qatar’s role in Lebanon, against Hezbollah<\/p>\n

Qatar’s role in Lebanon has been both as an investor and as a security guarantor, with the Gulf state being one of the main countries pushing for the stabilization in the region<\/a> and the end of the fighting between Israel and Hezbollah.<\/p>\n

\"A<\/p>\n

A man holds a weapon next to a poster with an image of late senior Hezbollah official Hashem Safieddine, in Lebanon, November 27, 2024 (credit: REUTERS\/THAIER AL-SUDANI)<\/p>\n

Egypt, Qatar, and Turkey gave Hezbollah a “final chance” to disarm and surrender its weapons to the Lebanese government, Saudi-owned outlet Asharq Al-Awsat reported on January 1.<\/p>\n

As per the report, the three nations heavily involved in mediation efforts told the Lebanese terrorist organization that a move to disarm would “spare Lebanon an Israeli strike” that would “deepen the gap” between Hezbollah and the Lebanese people.<\/p>\n

Qatar also invested in Lebanon<\/a>, especially after its state-run energy company entered a consortium to explore Lebanon’s offshore gas project.<\/p>\n

Qatar was involved in developing infrastructure and resources close to Israel\u2019s border<\/a>, a move made possible by the pressure put on Israel to sign a maritime 2022 deal with Lebanon.<\/p>\n

The then-US mediator and energy envoy Amos Hochstein praised the developments, saying: \u201cCongratulations to Lebanon on Qatar energy joining as investor with Eni [and] TotalEnergies. Welcome additional new investment in Lebanon energy sector and another example of progress from the maritime agreement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seth J. Frantzman contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A statement by Qatar’s Fund for Development said about $400 million would be provided to support Lebanon’s energy…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":547051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,79,119340,43339,4783,183229,13192,6673,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-547050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-economy","10":"tag-energy-sector","11":"tag-financial-support","12":"tag-hezbollah","13":"tag-lebanese-army","14":"tag-lebanon","15":"tag-qatar","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115967691709160464","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/547051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}