A Palestinian family from the West Bank city of Nablus officially handed over to Turkey money left by a Turkish soldier during WWI, Wafa news agency reported on Friday.

A prominent Palestinian family of Nablus, the Al-Aloul family, handed over the money to Turkish Consulate General in Jerusalem Ahmet Riza Demirer.

The family turned over the money in an official ceremony at the headquarters of the Nablus Governorate.

Nablus Governor Ibrahim Ramadan, Undersecretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriate Amal Jado and other political figures attended the ceremony.

"On this day, the time has come to hand over the trust that a Palestinian family has maintained for more than a hundred years," said Ramadan, as he handed over the trust, consisting of Ottoman-era banknotes, to the Turkish consulate general.

Demirer expressed that although the Turks and the Palestinian people separated administratively a hundred years ago, bilateral relations and sentiments of brotherhood between the two peoples remain robust.

Demirer thanked the Al-Aloul family for maintaining the money as trusted by the Turkish soldier for a hundred years.

Ismail Al-Aloul, a family member, said he inherited the trust from his grandfather Omar and his grandfather's brother, Mutee, who had received the trust from the pre-1917 Turkish soldier.

He explained that his grandfather's brother left with the Turkish soldier to the battlefield, and the Turkish soldier left the money with his grandfather.

"Neither of them has returned," he said, "but my grandfather opted to keep the money which was inherited to my father and then to me."