Saudi aid agency helps thousands at medical facility in Yemen

A KSrelief center volunteer treats patients in Yemen's Socotra region. (SPA)
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Updated 17 December 2022
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Saudi aid agency helps thousands at medical facility in Yemen

  • The center recently distributed 500 baskets of food in Al-Malha area in Sudan’s North Darfur state, benefiting 4,052 people

SOCOTRA: The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center has opened a temporary medical camp on the island of in Socotra in Yemen that is providing treatment and surgeries for thousands of patients.

Its work will continue until Dec. 18 and in addition to performing about 300 cataract surgeries and lens implants, and 100 other operations for eye problems, medics at the camp aim to assess the cases of more than 4,000 male and female patients.

Elsewhere, the center recently distributed 500 baskets of food in Al-Malha area in Sudan’s North Darfur state, benefiting 4,052 people.

Officials said the assistance comes within a wider framework of humanitarian and relief aid provided by the Kingdom through the center to countries and peoples in need around the world.

 

 


Saudi Foreign Ministry: Israel's decision on the West Bank undermines efforts to achieve peace and stability

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Saudi Foreign Ministry: Israel's decision on the West Bank undermines efforts to achieve peace and stability

The Saudi Foreign Ministry said Israel's decision on the West Bank undermines efforts to achieve peace and stability, in a statement published by Alarabiya on Monday. 

The Ministry said Israel had no right over Palestinian territories and was undermining the two state solution with it's decisions to take control of parts of the west bank. 

Israel’s cabinet on Sunday approved ‌further measures to tighten Israel’s control over the occupied West Bank and make it easier for settlers to buy land, in a move Palestinians called “a ​de-facto annexation.”