Palestinian officials across the political spectrum have publicly mourned the death of Emir Sabah Al Sabah, the Kuwaiti head of state who passed away today.
“With his departure, Palestine lost an Arab leader, a leader of all humanity… who spent his life serving his people, his nation and all humanity, and who always stood by our national cause,” Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas says in a statement.
The Hamas terror group calls Emir Sabah, who ascended to the throne in 2006, an important figure in “promoting our unity, our security, and our stability.”
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, right, meets with Kuwaiti Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah al-Khaled al-Sabah on September 14, 2014 in Ramallah. (photo credit: AFP/ABBAS MOMANI)
Palestinians have had a turbulent history with the small Gulf princely state.
The country hosted a large community of Palestinian workers for decades until 1990, when the Palestinian Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat publicly supported Saddam Hussein during his invasion of Kuwait. The Emirate responded by expelling hundreds of thousands of Palestinian workers and their families. Of the 400,000 who called Kuwait their home before the war, only about 20,000 remained.
Relations have improved in recent years, however. Over the past month, Kuwaiti government institutions have issued statements denouncing normalization agreements between its neighbors to the south and Israel.
— Aaron Boxerman
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