KSRelief teams perform open-heart surgeries in Yemen

KSrelief concluded the fourth round of a campaign to treat heart diseases in Yemen. (SPA)
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Updated 21 December 2020
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KSRelief teams perform open-heart surgeries in Yemen

  • Since it was founded in May 2015, KSRelief has implemented 1,329 projects in 53 countries, worth more than $4.42 billion

HADRAMOUT: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) concluded a campaign in Al-Mukalla during which medical teams performed 133 open-heart surgeries and cardiac catheterizations.
It was the fourth round of a volunteer program aimed at providing health services to needy people.
The program not only covers medical procedures but it also ensures provision of necessary care after surgery.
The center is carrying out several projects in different parts of the world. On Sunday, KSRelief distributed 1,100 cartons of dates among the needy people in the Somali capital Mogadishu. It is part of the center’s project to distribute 300 tons of dates among needy people and refugees in Somalia.
The center distributed 1,367 winter bags and other relief items among the needy in different areas of Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Since it was founded in May 2015, KSRelief has implemented 1,329 projects in 53 countries, worth more than $4.42 billion. The countries that have benefited most from its work are Yemen ($3 billion), Palestine ($360 million), Syria ($296 million), and Somalia ($192 million).

 


Saudi Arabia reaffirms commitment to the two-state solution

Updated 27 February 2026
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Saudi Arabia reaffirms commitment to the two-state solution

  • Waleed Elkhereiji stressed the “importance of mobilizing political and economic support and advancing practical steps that translate commitments into concrete measures and accelerate the realization of the two-state solution”

RIYADH: In Riyadh on Friday, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs Waleed Elkhereiji participated on behalf of Minister of Foreign Affairs Prince Faisal bin Farhan in the extraordinary meeting of the Open-Ended Executive Committee at the level of foreign ministers of the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation to discuss the Israeli occupation of Palestine, the Saudi Press Agency reported. 

Elkhereiji reaffirmed the Kingdom’s support for the Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State Solution and its efforts to unify international positions.

He stressed the “importance of mobilizing political and economic support and advancing practical steps that translate commitments into concrete measures and accelerate the realization of the two-state solution,” the SPA stated. 

He also restated Saudi Arabia’s commitment to continuing this path with partner countries to achieve “a just and comprehensive peace that fulfills the aspirations of the Palestinian people to self-determination and the establishment of their independent state in accordance with the Arab Peace Initiative.”