Jeddah,19.1.09
As a part of the US$ 25 million earmarked by Alqsa Fund for emergency relief of Palestinian people in Gaza strip the Fund announced that new relief supplies were handed over to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) via the Palestinian Ministry of Health worth US$ 500,000 .

The relief supplies announced by Al Aqsa Fund, which was created by the Arab Extraordinary Summit in Egypt in October 2000 and managed by the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), were composed of medicines, medical equipments and food stuff to be distributed in different areas of the strip.

Since the start of the Israeli aggression on Gaza relief supplies provided by Alaqsa fund were made in coordination with Palestinian Ministry of Health, Egyptian Red Crescent, Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization, Qatar Red Crescent and the Arab Gulf program for United Nations Development Organizations (AGFUND).