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25 February 2009

CP URGES TO END PALESTINIAN SUFFERING

CROWN PRINCE AND DEPUTY SUPREME COMMANDER  SHAIKH SALMAN BIN HAMAD AL KHALIFA APPEALED TODAY TO THE INTERNATIONAL  COMMUNITY TO EXERT EVERY EFFORT TO END THE PALESTINIAN SUFFERING IN THE GAZA  STRIP.

THERE SHOULD BE A HUMANITARIAN CRITERION TO END THE PALESTINIAN PLIGHT APART  FROM ANY POLITICAL DIFFERENCES, HE SAID AS HE RECEIVED AT RIFFA PALACE TODAY  UNRWA COMMISSIONER GENERAL KAREN ABUZAYD AND HER ACCOMPANYING  DELEGATION. ROYAL CHARITY ORGANIZATION (RCO) PRESIDENT SHAIKH NASSER BIN HAMAD AL  KHALIFA AND FOREIGN MINISTER SHAIKH KHALID BIN AHMED BIN MOHAMMED AL  KHALIFA ALSO ATTENDED. CATERING TO HUMAN NEEDS IS A VITAL NECESSITY AND A SOURCE OF WORRY IN BAHRAIN,  SHAIKH SALMAN SAID.

HIS MAJESTY KING HAMAD BIN ISA AL KHALIFA WILL WORK  ALONGSIDE CONCERNED SIDES TO END THE PALESTINIAN SUFFERING WHICH HAS REACHED  AN UNACCEPTABLE LEVEL, HE ADDED.

BAHRAIN IS ALWAYS READY TO EXTEND SUPPORT TO UNRWA IN ITS HUMANITARIAN  MISSION AIMED AT PROTECTING CHILDREN, AND PROVIDING FOOD AND MEDICATION FOR  THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE, THE CROWN PRINCE AFFIRMED.

HE WAS ALSO BRIEFED ON THE SITUATION IN GAZA, MAINLY WATER AND HEALTH  CONDITIONS.KAREN ASSURED HIM THAT DESPITE THE DRASTIC DETERIORATION OF THE  HEALTH SITUATION, THE STRIP REMAINS FREE OF ANY DISEASE. THE CROWN PRINCE STRESSED THE NEED FOR TRANSPARENCY IN MONEY SPENDING AND  THE INFLOW OF BASIC COMMODITIES THROUGH BORDER CROSSINGS.

HE ALSO  COMMENDED SHAIKH NASSER’S OUTSTANDING EFFORTS IN PERSONALLY SUPERVISING THE  FUNDRAISING DRIVE AND RALLYING SUPPORT FOR THE RECONSTRUCTION OF GAZA.

KAREN EXPRESSED THANKS TO BAHRAIN FOR ITS DISTINGUISHED ROLE IN BACKING  UNRWA’S ACTIVITIES.SHE ALSO CONVEYED RESPECT AND APPRECIATION OF THE  PALESTINIAN PEOPLE TO HIS MAJESTY THE KING FOR HIS PIONEERING INITIATIVES.

PRESENT AT THE MEETING WAS CROWN PRINCE COURT’S HEAD SHAIKH KHALIFA BIN  DAIJ AL KHALIFA.

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