King Salman Humanitarian Aid Supports WFP Projects in Syria, Palestine and Ethiopia

Riyadh, 17 Safar 1438/17 November 2016 (MINA) – King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre signed here Wednesday three executive programs to support the World Food Program projects in Syria, Palestine and Ethiopia amounting to US $ 12 million.

The aid comes as an implementation of the directives of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud to help people who are affected in the disaster-hit countries, SPA reported on Wednesday.

The agreement was signed by Advisor at the Royal Court General Supervisor of King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center Dr. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Rabiah, and , on behalf of the World Food Program, Director of the World Food Programme office in GCC states Abdullah Al-Wardat.

These executive programs target more than (1,200,000) beneficiaries in Syria to provide a variety of food items in the besieged areas, 20 thousand beneficiaries in the Gaza Strip to provide electronic food to the needy families as well as providing food assistance to more than 127 thousand beneficiaries in Ethiopia.

WFP has been active in Palestine since 1991 with works  in the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza to meet the food needs and early recovery of the most vulnerable non-refugee populations in the face of socio-economic hardships.

WFP activities focus on assisting people whose ability to buy food has been hampered by increased access restrictions and poverty brought about by decades of occupation in the West Bank and a ten-year-old blockade in the Gaza Strip. (T/R07/R01)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)