Yemen was one of the first Arab countries to recognize the State of Palestine in 1988, and has since maintained a strong stance in support of Palestinian rights.

[1] The influx of individuals occurred in a series of successive phases the most considerable of which were those who arrived subsequent to the Beirut siege of 1982.

[1] In 1990, Yemen officially unified into a single state, and the newly formed government continued to support Palestine.

Despite the lack of a specific geographical reference within the Quran, the encounter between Solomon and the Queen of Sheba is recorded in this religious text.

Likewise, it is commonly held that King Solomon presided over the governance of the ancient Israelite people in the land that currently occupies the territory of Palestine.