"Saudi Arabia has been supporting the Palestinian cause on various levels — in the political, economic and humanitarian areas", Naqli, who is also the country’s ambassador to Egypt, said, as quoted by the state-run Saudi Press Agency.
Palestinians have been engaged in a conflict with Israel for years.
The international community has made an effort to settle the conflict on various platforms. Particularly, on Wednesday and Thursday, Warsaw will host a US-sponsored conference on the Middle East, during which the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is expected to be discussed.
In a separate news article, the Saudi Press Agency reported that on Wednesday, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, inaugurated several projects, worth 82 million riyals (nearly $22 million), dedicated to the development of the kingdom's capital Riyadh.
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However, the agency had not specified what projects had received the funding.
The inauguration ceremony was reportedly attended by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who has recently been promoting economic and social reforms in the kingdom.
Abdullah Rabeeah, the supervisor general of King Salman Humanitarian Aid & Relief Centre (KSrelief), told Sputnik in an interview last year that Riyadh would further continue to support the Palestinian people through financial aid, including to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), and could close in the future the gap in the organization’s budget triggered by Washington's decision to stop the body's funding.
In August 2018, the Trump administration announced that it would stop contributing to UNRWA. The US State Department in a press release described the UNRWA as an "irredeemably flawed operation" with an unsustainable business model. The United States was traditionally the largest donor of the organization whose yearly budget amounts to about $1.2 billion.
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Palestinians declared in 1988 independence of the State of Palestine, which claims the territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with Jerusalem as a designated capital. A partial control of those territories was assumed in 2004, after the self-government body, the Palestinian Authority (PA) was established.
Over 100 countries have recognized Palestine as a sovereign state. The European Union and most of EU member-states have not officially recognized Palestine's sovereignty.
