One Saudi donates $ 6 million to the Palestinian Intifada
Saudi Arabia-Palestine, Politics, 9/3/2001

The Islamic Bank for development has announced it had received a donation from a man of " good deeds" at a value of $ 6 million in support of the steadfastness of the Palestinian people. The Bank did not disclose the identity " of the doer," but well-informed sources stressed that the donator is a Saudi and that he allocated the sum from his special bank account from one of the Saudi banks in al-Riyadh on Wednesday to the account of the Islamic bank for Development IBD in Jeddah.

The sources said that the donor asked the bank not to be identified. He is only known by the chairman of the Bank Ahmad Muhammad Ali.

A note by the IBD said that one USD million was allocated to expand and equip the medical instrument a the premises of al-Aqsa mosque in order to meet the increasing needs to providing emergency services and first aid medical services to the people performing their prayers especially during confrontation with the Israeli forces.

The note explained that the other USD 5 million will be given to the Jerusalem Intifada Fund in support of students of the Palestinian Universities. This sum will avail families to pay study fees at the Palestinian universities for students whose families are no more able to refund the fees because of Israeli incidents of killing or disability among the Palestinians.

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