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Saudi Aid to Palestine Amounts to $6 Billion in 17 Years

KSRelief General Supervisor Abdullah Al-Rabeeah holds a meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in New York. (SPA)
KSRelief General Supervisor Abdullah Al-Rabeeah holds a meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in New York. (SPA)
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Saudi Aid to Palestine Amounts to $6 Billion in 17 Years

KSRelief General Supervisor Abdullah Al-Rabeeah holds a meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in New York. (SPA)
KSRelief General Supervisor Abdullah Al-Rabeeah holds a meeting with UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres in New York. (SPA)

Dr. Abdullah Al Rabeeah, Advisor to the Royal Court and General Supervisor of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) said that the total amount of aid provided by Saudi Arabia to the Palestinian people over the last 17 years exceeded $6 billion (23 billion Saudi riyals), in addition to the assistance offered by the National Committee for the Relief of the Palestinian People.
 
In a press statement, the Saudi official noted that the Kingdom has provided “ongoing and extensive support” to the people of Palestine, adding that between 2000 and 2018, Saudi aid and development support has exceeded $6 billion.
 
Among the Kingdom’s partners in delivering assistance in Palestine are various UN agencies, the Saudi National Committee for the Relief of the Palestinian People, and national and international NGOs, according to Rabeeah.
 
He added that Saudi Arabia has provided aid to the Palestinian people in several assistance categories, which included development aid, exceeding $4.5 billion, humanitarian aid, nearly reaching $1.1 billion, and philanthropic assistance that amounted to $17.3 million.
 
An amount of $200 million was also pledged by the Kingdom, including $50 million to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), and $150 million to support the Palestinian Waqf Program in Jerusalem.
 
Rabeeah underlined that the most important development assistance provided by the Kingdom was a $263.17 million project to build and renovate housing units in Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, as well as Ain Al Hilweh and Nahr Al Bared refugee camps.
 
The Kingdom also funded a $107 million housing project in Rafah (Phase I), implemented through UNRWA, for the construction of an integrated residential city, including 752 housing units for 4,564 people, four schools, a health center, a cultural center, a mall, a mosque, paved roads, street lights and water supply facilities.
 
Phase II of the same Rafah project included 765 housing units for 4,761 people, two schools, a mosque, and electricity and water supply infrastructure.
 
Saudi Arabia’s programs to assist the Palestinians were provided either directly by the Kingdom, or in collaboration with KSrelief’s partners, including international organizations and UN agencies such as UNRWA, WFP, UNICEF, UNFPA, and UNESCO, the Saudi official said.

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Saudi FM: Gaza Genocide Is Greatest Test to International Order

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah attends the “Cairo Ministerial Conference to Enhance the Humanitarian Response in Gaza” in Cairo on December 2, 2024. (AFP)
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah attends the “Cairo Ministerial Conference to Enhance the Humanitarian Response in Gaza” in Cairo on December 2, 2024. (AFP)
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Saudi FM: Gaza Genocide Is Greatest Test to International Order

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah attends the “Cairo Ministerial Conference to Enhance the Humanitarian Response in Gaza” in Cairo on December 2, 2024. (AFP)
Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah attends the “Cairo Ministerial Conference to Enhance the Humanitarian Response in Gaza” in Cairo on December 2, 2024. (AFP)

Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan bin Abdullah warned on Monday that the “vicious Gaza genocide is the greatest test to the international order.”

Speaking at the “Cairo Ministerial Conference to Enhance the Humanitarian Response in Gaza”, he stressed the need to end the suffering of the Palestinian people, while warning that the current escalation may lead to the expansion of the conflict in the region.

The spillover in the region may result in a wide-scale war that would be difficult to contain, he went on to say.

The humanitarian crisis in Palestine has reached “unbearable levels and it cannot be allowed to deteriorate further,” he said, noting that nearly 44,000 Palestinians have been killed by the “barbaric war machine and over 100,000 have been wounded and nearly 350,000 are living in disastrous inhumane conditions.”

He slammed Israel for “committing massacres against women, children and the elderly, destroying infrastructure in Gaza and adopting siege tactics and displacement that has targeted nearly 2 million people.”

“These tactics only deepen the suffering and fuel extremism in the region, expand the scope of the conflict and undermine opportunities for coexistence and sustainable peace,” the FM warned.

Prince Faisal underlines the importance of an immediate and permanent ceasefire and exerting all possible efforts to avoid the conflict from expanding.

Moreover, he urged an end to impunity and for holding officials to account for the crimes that have been committed in Gaza, while calling for ensuring the unimpeded delivery of aid.

Furthermore, he expressed Saudi Arabia’s condemnation of Israeli attacks on humanitarian workers and its undermining of relief efforts.

He also slammed the Israeli Knesset’s legislation to ban UNRWA, warning that it would have catastrophic consequences on Gaza and the West Bank.

He stressed that Saudi Arabia has never spared an effort in providing aid to the victims of Israeli assaults, saying that since the eruption of the crisis, it has offered projects and programs in Gaza worth over 500 million riyals and over six tons of relief aid, such as food, shelter and medicine.

Prince Faisal said the “catastrophic conditions in the region must force us to exert more efforts to prevent the conflict from expanding by tackling the root causes of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.”

He called for a return to “serious and effective dialogue to achieve peace according to the two-state solution, relevant international resolutions and 2002 Arab Peace Initiative.”