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The Saudi ambassador to Egypt Ahmed Abdulaziz Qattan announced that the kingdom will support the Palestinian Authority's budget with $60 million.
Qattan said in a statement released by the Saudi Embassy media office in Cairo yesterday: "The Saudi Fund for Development has transferred a total of $60 million to the Palestinian Finance Ministry." This is equivalent to the kingdom's monthly contributions to support the Palestinian National Authority's budget for the three months from April to June.
"Saudi Arabia will always support the Palestinian cause at all levels," Qattan said adding that "the kingdom has been keen, since January 2013, to increase its share in the Palestinian Authority's budget from $14 million to $20 million a month."
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/20065-saudi-transfers-60m-to-the-pa
(so then I read this, that SA and Hamas have a long history of interaction. Its a longer article but full of infor, so we really need to quit saying Iran is the biggest sponsor of terrorism)
Saudi Arabia and Hamas: A Pragmatic Partnership
Analysis
July 27, 2015 | 09:30 GMT
Saudi Arabia and Hamas have a long history of interaction. Hamas is far from financially independent; it has always depended on multiple sources of external support. In the early 2000s, Saudi Arabia was Hamas' chief patron, with some reports claiming that Saudi Arabia provided as much as 50 percent of Hamas' operating budget. Starting in 2004, however, Riyadh reduced this funding, in part because the West began to more closely scrutinize Saudi Arabia's financing of terrorist groups in the wake of Sept. 11 and various suicide attacks claimed by Hamas during the Second Intifada.
When Hamas was briefly elected to head the Palestinian National Authority in 2006, Saudi Arabia publicly defied the United States by ignoring Washington's request to cut off funding to the group. Then, in February 2007, Riyadh helped negotiate what would be a short-lived coalition government between Fatah and Hamas. Even afterward, Saudi Arabia maintained financial support to Hamas and still emphasized the importance of cooperation between Hamas and its rival, Fatah.
Saudi Arabia and Hamas A Pragmatic Partnership Stratfor
(its in the Israel papers as well , just with a different twist)
Qattan said in a statement released by the Saudi Embassy media office in Cairo yesterday: "The Saudi Fund for Development has transferred a total of $60 million to the Palestinian Finance Ministry." This is equivalent to the kingdom's monthly contributions to support the Palestinian National Authority's budget for the three months from April to June.
"Saudi Arabia will always support the Palestinian cause at all levels," Qattan said adding that "the kingdom has been keen, since January 2013, to increase its share in the Palestinian Authority's budget from $14 million to $20 million a month."
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/news/middle-east/20065-saudi-transfers-60m-to-the-pa
(so then I read this, that SA and Hamas have a long history of interaction. Its a longer article but full of infor, so we really need to quit saying Iran is the biggest sponsor of terrorism)
Saudi Arabia and Hamas: A Pragmatic Partnership
Analysis
July 27, 2015 | 09:30 GMT
Saudi Arabia and Hamas have a long history of interaction. Hamas is far from financially independent; it has always depended on multiple sources of external support. In the early 2000s, Saudi Arabia was Hamas' chief patron, with some reports claiming that Saudi Arabia provided as much as 50 percent of Hamas' operating budget. Starting in 2004, however, Riyadh reduced this funding, in part because the West began to more closely scrutinize Saudi Arabia's financing of terrorist groups in the wake of Sept. 11 and various suicide attacks claimed by Hamas during the Second Intifada.
When Hamas was briefly elected to head the Palestinian National Authority in 2006, Saudi Arabia publicly defied the United States by ignoring Washington's request to cut off funding to the group. Then, in February 2007, Riyadh helped negotiate what would be a short-lived coalition government between Fatah and Hamas. Even afterward, Saudi Arabia maintained financial support to Hamas and still emphasized the importance of cooperation between Hamas and its rival, Fatah.
Saudi Arabia and Hamas A Pragmatic Partnership Stratfor
(its in the Israel papers as well , just with a different twist)
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