The King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid (KSRELIEF) distributed over 900 tons of medicine and medical supplies as part of its continuing support of health care services in Yemen. Over 1.6 million people, including 300,000 children below the age of five and 416,000 women have benefited from KSRELIEF program.
The King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid (KSRELIEF) has funded a number of humanitarian programs, including programs that targeted child, pregnant women and the elderly in Yemen. The programs carried out by the World Health Organization (WHO) with health partners in Yemen. Over 7.5 million Yemenis benefited from these programs.
The Ministry of Interior announced today the identity of the suicide bomber behind the July 4 attack in Madinah and of the perpetrators of the Qatif suicide bombing on the same day. Four security officers were killed in the Madinah bombing. The ministry also announced that investigations have led to the arrest of 19 persons who were involved in these attacks as well as the attack in Jeddah, including seven Saudi citizens and 12 Pakistani nationals. Those investigations are continuing.
Deputy Chief of Mission Sami Al-Sadhan his morning hosted the embassy’s annual Eid Al-Fitr prayers at the embassy to mark the end of Ramadan. After the prayers, the embassy hosted a breakfast guests, which included embassy staff, members of the Saudi community, representatives of the Saudi armed forces in Washington, as well as Saudi students.
Crown Prince Mohammed bin Naif bin Abdulaziz, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior, performed in Medinah today the funeral prayer on the soul of martyred security men who were killed in a terrorist attack near the Prophet's Mosque in Medinah. The funeral prayer also was performed by Imam of the Prophet's Mosque Sheikh Dr. Ali bin Abdulrahman Al-Hudhaifi; and Medinah Governor Prince Faisal bin Salman bin Abdulaziz.
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz today recommitted the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to “strike with an iron fist” the terror groups that seek to recruit youths to “extremism and violence,” and pledged efforts to “distance them from masterminds of misleading ideas.”
The Ministry of Interior identified the perpetrator of suicide bombing in Jeddah as Abdullah Qalzar Khan, a Pakistani national. The ministry said that Khan was born in Pakistan on Sept. 15, 1981 and resided in Jeddah with his wife and her parents. He came to the Kingdom 12 years ago to work as a private driver.
The Ministry of Interior announced today that two suicide bombings were carried out before Maghrib (evening) prays in Madinah and Qatif. The ministry said that that before Maghrib prayers in Madinah, security men suspected a person while he was heading to the Prophet's Mosque through a visitor’s parking lot. When they intercepted him, he detonated an explosive vest, which resulted in his death, killing four security men, and injury of 5 other security men.
The King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid (KSRELIEF) distributed yesterday 10,000 food parcels and 20 tons of dates in the directorate of Sabr Al-Mouadem in Taiz Governorate through the humanitarian relief coalition and its partners of associations and institutions in the governorate.
The distribution is part KSRELIEF project to distribute 100,000 new food baskets and 200 tons of dates to the affected people in six besieged directorates in Taiz Governorate.
The Interior Ministry announced this morning that suicide bomber blows himself up in a hospital parking lot in Jeddah. The ministry reported that at 2:15 am on Sunday, July 3, at the intersection of Palestine Street and Hail Street, near the parking lot of Dr. Suleiman Faqih Hospital in Jeddah, a police patron spotted a man acting suspiciously and as they approached him he detonated an explosive belt he was wearing inside the hospital's parking lot, killing him and slightly wounding two security men. The incident is under investigation.