CAGAYAN DE ORO CITY – Saudi Arabia donated some 5,000 food baskets to poor Muslim families in Marawi City in the southern Philippine province of Lanao del Sur.
The weekend donation was coursed through
the King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center and attended by local
government officials and members of the Philippine Red Cross.
The humanitarian project was led by Naif
Al-Shehri, representative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia's embassy in the
Philippines.
“This campaign comes within
the framework of support being provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, through
the Center, to secure and distribute food baskets for the most vulnerable
families in Marawi City,” according to the Saudi Press Agency.
In May 2017, heavily-armed members of the
jihadist Maute group and the Abu Sayyaf and other pro-ISIS militants occupied
Marawi in an attempt to establish a caliphate and sparked fierce clashes that
resulted in the destruction of the city. Nearly 400,000 people were left homeless
and hundreds killed and wounded in the fighting that lasted 5 months.
The humanitarian
mission coincided with fierce fighting between the pro-ISIS group Dawlah
Islamiya in the town of Madalum, about 35 kilometers away from Marawi.
Troops seized
several enemy encampments in the villages of Bawang and Cabasaran and recovered
materials in the manufacture of homemade bombs. There were no reports of
casualties from both sides, although the military operation continues in Lanao
del Sur, one of 5 provinces under the restive Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in
Muslim Mindanao. (Mindanao Examiner)
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