ALGIERS — Algeria's President
Abdelmadjid Tebboune pledged $100 million in aid to the Palestinians, as Palestinian leader Mahmoud
Abbas visited Algiers on Monday.
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Tebboune said at a joint press conference that the funding
was "in keeping with Algeria's revolutionary history and the entire
Algerian people's commitment to support the just Palestinian cause under all
circumstances".
Algeria is to host an Arab League summit in March 2022, the
first since Morocco renewed ties with Israel amid a string of US-brokered
normalization deals.
Tebboune said Monday that Algeria plans "to put the
Palestinian cause at the center of this important event".
Algerian television also reported that Tebboune plans to
host Palestinian factions for talks.
The Palestinian leader's tour of North Africa, where he also
plans to visit Tunisia, comes two weeks after Israeli Defense Minister Benny
Gantz signed an unprecedented defense deal with Morocco.
That deal stoked already high tensions with
Algeria, which
sees Israeli defence cooperation with the kingdom as a danger to its national
security.
A top Algerian official said Gantz's visited
"targeted" his country.
Algiers broke off diplomatic ties with Rabat in August,
citing "hostile" actions by Morocco, which the kingdom denies.
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