RAMALLAH, August 1, 2005, (WAFA)- President Mahmoud Abbas, and members of the Leadership, mourned Monday the "big loss of the nation" King Fahd Bin Abdulaziz of KSA.... In an official statement, Presidential Council, said: "The Arab nation, and the brother Arab Saudi people as well as the Palestinian people lost the big Arab leader, the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Fahd Bin Abdulaziz, may God bless him."
The statement said that the Palestinian people will still remember the "hounoured positions" of King Fahd and his support to the Palestinian rights, including funding charity projects.... PM Ahmed Qurie said, on Monday, that the death of KSA King is loss to the Islamic and Arab world around the world.... He told reporters in Ramallah that King Fahd spent his life in following up the Arab causes especially the Palestinian cause.... In the meantime, Shekh Ikrima Sabri, Mofti of Jerusalem and the Palestinian territory sent a cable of condolence to the new KSA king, Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz, and to the new King Abdallah Bin Abdulaziz and KSA princes.... Sabri recalled that King Fahd was stout supporter to the Palestinian people stressing on the attention he used to pay for Jerusalem and Islamic shrines in Palestine.... Tens of Palestinian NGOs and official bodies also sent cables of condolences to the new King of the KSA on the death of King Fahd.... Earlier on Monday, the Palestinian National Authority declared a three-day mourning period on the passing a way of King Fahd.... S.A.S. (19:48 P) (16:48 GMT)