Today (Thursday), the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center signed four cooperation agreements with a number of international organizations, to support the humanitarian response and alleviate the suffering of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

The signing ceremony of the agreements took place at the headquarters of the Embassy of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Cairo, and the total value of the agreements amounted to 150 million Saudi riyals (one US dollar equals 3.75 Saudi riyals).

The agreements included an agreement to finance the activities of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) to provide food, water, and environmental restoration in the Gaza Strip, at a value of 56 million and 250 thousand Saudi riyals, and an agreement to support the efforts of the World Health Organization in the field of health and treatment of malnutrition in the Gaza Strip, at a value of 37 million. And 500 thousand Saudi riyals.

The agreements also included an agreement to urgently respond to the humanitarian appeal of the International Committee of the Red Cross and support its efforts to provide relief to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, with a value of 37 million and 500 thousand Saudi riyals, and an emergency response agreement to support the efforts of the World Food Program in providing food to the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, with a value of 18 million and 750 thousand Saudi riyals.

Abdullah Al-Rabiah, supervisor of the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center, confirmed that the main goal of signing these agreements is to alleviate the catastrophic human suffering that the Palestinians are experiencing in the Gaza Strip, indicating that everyone knows the humanitarian challenges that the Palestinians are going through, the extent of the great humanitarian need, and the shortage of food, medicine, and water, as well as About displacement operations within the sector.

Al-Rabiah said, in his speech during the signing of the agreements, “Yesterday I visited the Rafah border crossing and witnessed for myself the humanitarian interaction and the great Egyptian efforts at the Rafah crossing to bring in aid, but Israeli obstinacy remains the biggest obstacle to getting that aid in,” calling on the international community and UN organizations to put pressure on Israel with all its means available to unconditionally allow the entry of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip.

Al-Rabiah confirmed, in a statement to Xinhua News Agency, that the total aid provided by the Center to the Gaza Strip so far amounted to more than 45 million dollars, which included an air bridge that included 15 planes carrying about 330 tons of relief aid, and a ship carrying 43 large containers carrying Humanitarian aid, in addition to 10 ambulances and about 326 relief aid trucks.

For his part, the Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), Philippe Lazzarini, stressed the seriousness of the situation that the Gaza Strip is currently going through, stressing that the time is very crucial and extremely critical, and he continued, saying, “The more we wait, the more deaths increase, not because of the bombing, but because of the lack of Food, water, medicine, etc.

Lazzarini added that there are hundreds of thousands of displaced Palestinians who left their homes more than 40 days ago and do not have the most basic humanitarian needs and do not have a mattress, blanket or clothes.

He pointed out that the severe fuel shortage that the Strip is suffering from means the cessation of life and the shortage of everything, there is no bread, no water, no cars, and no food, warning against the continuation of this catastrophic situation.