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Riyadh — Saudi Arabia has provided $6 billion in aid to the Palestinian people since 2000,
according to adviser to Royal Court and supervisor general of the King Salman Humanitarian
Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) Dr. Abdullah Al-Rabeeah.
He said the Kingdom has provided aid to the Palestinian people in three major assistance
categories: development ($4,531,487,015), humanitarian assistance ($1,002,298,330), and
philanthropic activities ($17,330,878).
An additional $200,000,000 was also pledged by the Kingdom — $50 million of this amount 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.
Dr. Al-Rabeeah said the most important development assistance provided by the Kingdom
was for the $263.17 million program to construct and renovate housing units in Palestinian
refugee camps in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, including Ain Al Hilweh camp and Nahr Al Bared
camp.
The Kingdom 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.
Two additional projects to provide water and electricity networks and roads were also
undertaken at the Ain Al Hilweh and Nahr Al Bared camps for a total cost of USD $258.4
million.
Dr. Al-Rabeeah said the Kingdom has also undertaken the following additional programs,
projects and initiatives in Palestine between 2011 and 2018:
• A project to furnish and equip more than 17 medical centers and support a number of
Palestinian hospitals with medical equipment and medicines, and another to provide an
ambulance and medicines for use by at the Al-Aqsa Mosque clinic (total cost: USD $58
million.)
• A project to develop, expand and equip more than 61 primary and intermediate schools in
different parts of Palestine (total cost: USD $125.46 million).
• Eight food security projects implemented through the World Food Program (WFP) (total
cost: USD $17.9 million).
• A project to support Palestinian families (including widows, orphans, and the wounded) was
implemented with the Islamic Development Bank (total cost: USD $250 million).
• With UNRWA, constructing shelters and rehabilitating infrastructure (USD $30 million).
• Joint project with the Palestine Red Crescent Society to provide medical and nutritional
services (USD $53.3 million).
• Funding of philanthropic aid to Palestine (USD $17.3 million); projects included the payment
of the full cost for 3,177 Palestinian religious pilgrims to visit Saudi Arabia (USD $15,330
million), and a project to provide Palestinians with fresh meat (USD $2 million).
The Kingdom also provided USD $300,111,270 through the Saudi National Committee for the
Relief of the Palestinian People. USD $100,534,320 of this amount covered the costs for 79
projects in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and Palestinian refugee camps. These projects included:
The Kingdom has provided (USD $52,970,191) to help specific groups of Palestinians in need,
including:
• Families whose members have been wounded, are disabled, or have special needs
The Kingdom has also provided USD $58,946,536 for health care and medical sector aid,
including:
• Assisting patients
• Providing medicines, medical supplies, and dialysis equipment for hospitals belonging to the
Palestinian Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank
In the education sector, the Kingdom provided USD $40,252,592 for projects in the Gaza Strip
and the West Bank for the following programs:
• Scholarships for 159 students to obtain higher-education degrees (Bachelor's, Master's and
Ph.D.) in Arab-region, European and American universities
Construction projects for the West Bank and Gaza Strip were funded by the Kingdom in the
amount of USD $41,745,844, and included the following:
• Renovation of 2,345 housing units in the West Bank and Gaza Strip
• Construction of 500 integrated housing units with infrastructure in the Gaza Strip
• Construction of 100 new housing units in the West Bank city of Hebron
The budget for infrastructure projects was USD $5,662,103, and included the rehabilitation of
the water system and electrical grid system in Nablus, and the construction of desalination
plants in the Gaza Strip.
All of these projects, Dr. Al Rabeeah clarified, were provided either directly by the Kingdom,
or in collaboration with KSrelief’s partners, including such international organizations and UN
agencies as UNRWA, WFP, UNICEF, UNFPA, and UNESCO.
The Supervisor General paid tribute to the Kingdom’s leaders for their keen interest in
providing comprehensive assistance to the people of Palestine, and reemphasized the
Kingdom’s commitment to supporting the universal humanitarian principles of compassion
and cooperation between nations and peoples with the goal of alleviating the suffering of all
in need