Vice Foreign Minister Eng. Waleed Al-Khereiji participated Sunday in the high-level Jerusalem Conference, entitled: "Resilience and Development", at the Arab League headquarters in Cairo. Al-Khereiji delivered the Kingdom's speech at the conference, where he reiterated the Kingdom's support for finding a just and comprehensive solution to the Palestinian cause, per the resolutions of international legitimacy and the Arab Peace Initiative and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital. He renewed the Kingdom's condemnation of all unilateral measures by Israeli nation that undermine the two-state solution and stressed the Kingdom's call for their immediate and complete cessation. Al-Khereiji added that the Kingdom has spared no effort in supporting the State of Palestine and the Palestinian people in various humanitarian, economic, and political fields to restore their legitimate rights. He cited the announcement by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman at the Jerusalem summit held in Dhahran in March 2019 of donating $150 million for the Islamic Endowment Support Program in Jerusalem. He highlighted the Kingdom's contributions to the Al-Aqsa and Al-Quds Funds managed by the Islamic Development Bank that amounted to a total of $390 million. The Kingdom continues to provide its support to the Palestinian people through international organizations and its affiliated agencies, including the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA). He added that the Kingdom is one of the first countries to support the agency, as the total support provided to the agency exceeded $1.1 billion. The vice foreign minister noted that Saudi Arabia supported many development projects for Palestinian refugees in various fields, including health, education, social, and relief, through UNRWA, King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center, and the Saudi Fund for Development. Al-Khereiji renewed the Kingdom's call to stop the Israeli occupation forces' storming of Al-Aqsa Mosque, closing its gates, and attacking unarmed worshipers inside and outside its squares, in addition to the provocative practices carried out by an Israeli official in storming the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque. He considered the violations of the Israeli occupying forces a systematic escalation and a flagrant attack on the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque. He called on the international community to assume its roles in holding the Israeli occupation forces fully responsible for the repercussions of the continuation of such crimes and violations on the defenseless Palestinian people, their land and sanctities, and for undermining the chances of reviving the peace process in the East Middle. — SPA
