The aid consists of food and health baskets for families and children worth SR19,980,000, reported the Saudi Press Agency, Thursday.
Authorities have studied the needs of Syrians and determined the best method to deliver aid to them in accordance with the regulations and mechanisms approved by Saudi relief campaigns.
Officials running the campaign have called upon citizens to give cash and in-kind donations to provide assistance to Syrian refugees. The aid distribution will take place next week.
Cash donations are still welcome at NCB account SA2310000020188888000100 while donations in kind can be sent to warehouses run by the campaign in Riyadh and Jeddah.
Meanwhile, the rebel Free Syrian Army withdrew completely from the embattled district of Salaheddin in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo Thursday as regime forces advanced, a rebel commander said.
“We have staged a tactical withdrawal from Salaheddin,” Hossam Abu Mohammed told AFP by telephone. “The district is completely empty of rebel fighters. Regime forces are now advancing into Salaheddin.”
The rebels are still in streets near the key neighborhood, said Abu Mohammed, who commands the Dara Al-Shahbaa Brigade. “We are in the Saif Al-Dawla and Mashhad districts” east of Salaheddin, he said.
He cited the violent bombardment by regime forces as the reason behind the FSA withdrawal.
“The artillery and aerial bombardments are very heavy, and they are targeting all rebel-held areas surrounding Salaheddin,” said Abu Mohammed.
“The shelling of Salaheddin was so heavy that we have a clowd of dust above Salaheddin,” he added.
