The Kuwaiti government announced on Sunday that it would donate 20 million U.S. dollars to help alleviate the sufferings endured by the Lebanese and Palestinian people due to Israeli assaults, official Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) reported.

Fifteen million dollars would be delivered to the Kuwaiti Relief Committee and 5 million to the Kuwaiti Red Crescent, Kuwaiti Deputy Prime Minister Ismail Khudher al-Shatti said in a statement, which was cited by KUNA.

The cabinet on Sunday also approved the cost of evacuating Kuwaiti citizens from Lebanon, said al-Shatti.

According to an earlier report, the Kuwaiti embassy in Lebanon had succeeded in evacuating all Kuwaiti citizens from Lebanon except two families trapped in the south.

Tens of thousands of foreigners have been fleeing Lebanon where Israel kept up a massive assault following a cross-border attack on July 12 when Lebanon's Hezbollah guerrillas kidnapped two Israeli soldiers and killed eight others.

More than 300 Lebanese and 37 Israelis have been killed in the violence.

On another front, Israel continued its four-week-long military operation against the Gaza Strip to free a kidnapped Israeli soldiers and halt Palestinian rocket attacks.

Source: Xinhua