RIYADH – Saudi Arabia’s King Salman on Sunday criticised US PresidentDonald Trump’s decision to transfer the US embassy in Israel from Tel Avivto Jerusalem.

“We reiterate our rejection of the US decision on Jerusalem,” the king saidin a speech during the opening of an Arab League summit.

“East Jerusalem is an integral part of the Palestinian territories,” hesaid in Dhahran in eastern Saudi Arabia.

Saudi Arabia, which takes over the rotating chair of the Arab summit fromJordan, announced that the current gathering would be named the “Quds(Jerusalem) Summit”, a reference to Trump’s decision last year to recogniseJerusalem as the capital of Israel.

King Salman said Saudi Arabia was donating US $200 million to support thePalestinians, including US $50 million for the UN Relief and Works Agency(UNRWA).

The king condemned Iran, without making any reference to missile strikes byWestern powers on Syrian government targets over a suspected gas attack aweek ago.

“We renew our strong condemnation of terrorist acts carried out by Iran inthe Arab region, and we reject its blatant interference in the internalaffairs of Arab countries,” he said, without giving specifics.

The United States, Britain and France launched missiles against threealleged chemical weapons facilities in Syria on Saturday.

Saudi Arabia and its allies expressed support for the strikes on Saturday,but Iraq and Lebanon have condemned them. Other countries like Jordan andKuwait refrained from taking a position, instead renewing calls for apolitical solution to the multi-sided war which has killed at least half amillion people in the past seven years.

Military help over the past three years from Russia and Iran, which alsobacks Lebanon’s Hezbollah group and Shi’ite Muslim militias in Iraq, hasallowed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to crush the rebel threat totopple him.