Saudi Arabia announces Damascus area reconstruction project to clear rubble

Aid from the kingdom’s foundation KSRelief volition besides assistance rebuild dozens of schools and bakeries passim Syria.

Saudi Arabia has announced a caller task to assistance with clearing rubble and doing reconstruction successful Syria’s capital, Damascus, deepening the kingdom’s ties with the caller authorities in Syria.

The state-backed King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre foundation (KSRelief) said connected Sunday that it would supply an assistance bundle that would assistance wide an estimated 75,000 cubic metres of rubble from the superior and its surroundings.

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Abdullah Al Rabeeah, who leads KSRelief, said astatine an lawsuit successful Damascus that the foundation was “honoured to inaugurate a fig of humanitarian projects for the Syrian people”, including those focusing connected health, nutrient information and education.

The assistance volition besides assistance rebuild 34 schools successful Aleppo, Idlib and Homs, reconstruct dozens of bakeries, and rehabilitate sewage and h2o infrastructure successful Damascus.

In a station connected X, Syria’s Minister for Disaster Management Raed al-Saleh said the agreements signed betwixt the 2 countries would heighten “humanitarian effect efforts and reconstruction successful Syria, affirming the spot of the humanitarian and brotherly relations betwixt our 2 countries”.

Saudi Arabia, Qatar and different Gulf countries person been providing economical enactment to Syria since the autumn of the authorities of erstwhile President Bashar al-Assad precocious successful 2024 aft a 13-year civilian war.

In precocious July, Riyadh pledged $6.4bn successful concern and concern deals with Syria.

The confederate and eastbound parts of Damascus sustained dense harm during the fighting, with full neighbourhoods being reduced to rubble. The caller authorities successful Damascus person sought planetary concern to kick-start the country’s economy.

According to its website, KSRelief has oregon is operating 422 projects crossed Syria worthy much than $500m. The bulk are successful wellness and nutrient security.

Saudi Arabia has been a large backer of the caller authorities successful Damascus, led by transitional President Ahmed al-Sharaa, a erstwhile rebel who was calved successful the superior Riyadh, and went to the state for his archetypal planetary visit.

In May, Saudi Arabia helped broker a meeting betwixt al-Sharaa and United States President Donald Trump, who aboriginal pushed to region each sanctions against Syria.

In July, Saudi Arabia announced that it would put $2.9bn successful the country, and pledged to screen Syria’s indebtedness to the World Bank on with Qatar.

Syria’s gross home merchandise contracted astir 70 percent from a 2011 precocious during the war, which near devastating demolition passim the country.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies