Saudi Arabia collected nearly $32.5 million Monday (July 23rd) on the first day of a fundraising campaign to support victims of violence in Syria, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.
King Abdullah launched the five-day campaign by donating 20 million riyals ($5.3 million), the news agency said. Crown Prince Salman bin Abdul Aziz donated 10 million riyals ($2.6 million) to the cause.
The campaign also collected food, medical equipment, clothes, tents, and blankets, the agency reported.
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عطاء علي
2012-7-28
The least thing that the Arab countries should do is help our poor Syrian brothers who are currently refugees all over the Arab World. The least we can do is to help those helpless people to survive and provide for them the basic human rights such as proper food, housing to cover their bodies and healthcare services that are offered in the foreign countries even to the humblest creatures. All the Arab World represented in nations, people and governments has to overcome the selfishness and unite wholeheartedly for at least once to help our poor Syrian brothers displaced in every country to flee the brutality of the bloody Bashar. Maybe we can overcome our nature of disunity and agreement to disagree, and become united for once to achieve a noble high aim. Sami Nabil.
صالح سبع
2012-7-25
The natural position of the Arab nations and governments is not that of passive spectators that watch as their brothers in Syria are slaughtered every day openly in the streets and public roads. It is not for the Arabs to stay silent over tyranny and the defense of the truth and the protection of their Syrian brothers whose rights are being denied and whose hearts are being oppressed over the loss of their dearest people and relatives. We, Arabs, were never weak and fragile nations that put up with humiliation and degradation. All of you Arab countries, we have never been a cowardly people that fears tyrants and their swords or the despots and their despotism. Today, the union of the Arabs and the formation of a national Arab front have become a core duty upon all the Arab citizens and all the officials or members of the Arab governments, not for the sake of raising the status of the Arab countries or enhancing it, as the issue now has come to the point of either the fall of an entire nation for ever or its resurgence and revival. So, all the Arab nations have to come together and form real and strong Arab unions in order to come to the help of our brothers, the Syrian citizens, and extricate them from the injustice that they are under at the hands of their protector. Also, one of the top priorities is to force Bashar al-Assad to step down from power in the beloved Syria so that it can regain its former splendor as it has been throughout history, so that the people of Syria can have the opportunity to rebuild their destroyed and devastated country where there is nothing of beauty, as everything has turned into ruin in the wake of a mirage of lost glory.