BAGHDAD. Oct 9: Iraqi Presl dent Saddam Hussein donated five million euros ($4.34 million) to support Palestinian clashes with Israel and opened training camps for Iraqis volunteering to fight Uie Israelis, newspapers said today, reports Reuters.

'The President decided to donate five million euros to Palestinian martyrs and to support the (Palestinian) uprising." the ruling Baath Party newspaper al-Thawra said, quoting a meeting of top Iraqi officials chaired by Saddam late on Sunday.

It also said Saddam ordered that military training camps open "for volunteers willing to launch jihad (holy war) to liberate Palestine."

Saddam Instructed the Iraqi Health Ministry to send medical teams and supplies to treat wounded Palestinians and said that Iraq was ready to receive and treat the Injured.

At least 84 people have been killed, most of them Palestinians, and many more injured In 1 1 days of clashes between Israelis and Palestinians in the West Bank. Gaza Strip and Israel itself.

The Iraqi president had earlier ordered his cabinet to name a school and street in Baghdad after Mohammed Durra, a 12 year-old Palestinian boy shot dead In Gaza by Israeli soldiers In a televised killing that shocked the world.

On Tuesday, he had said his country was ready to "put an end to Zionism" if other Arab rulers did not defend the Palestinians. And on Saturday. Baghdad urged Arab countries to cut Ues with Israel and the United States and called for a holy war".