Qatari pilgrims praise Saudi efforts in facilitating hajj

Mecca –  After performing Hajj, Qatari pilgrims hailed Saudi Arabian efforts to facilitate the rituals of Hajj, ensuring that they were provided with the necessary amenities.

As a successful Hajj season winds down, Saudi Arabia’s seasonal guests coming all over the world begin their journey home, after performing the fifth and greatest pillar of Islam.

Since the outset of Hajj season, Doha has tried to falsely propagate that Saudi Arabia plies rituals of Hajj to achieve political gains by deliberately blocking Qatar nationals from entering the kingdom.

With the mediation of Sheikh Abdullah Al-Thani to open the Salwa border crossing for Qatari pilgrims, the Saudi King announced facilitations to the Qatari pilgrimage crisis, as he offered to send planes at his own expense to carry pilgrims from Doha to the Kingdom.

According to the newspaper Al-Sharq Al-Awsat, the number of Qatari pilgrims increased from last year by 354 pilgrims on Wednesday.

The Director of Customs at Salwa crossing border said the Qatari pilgrims confirmed that the completion of their procedures were smooth and easy, quoting one of the Qatari pilgrims who said, “We arrived quickly and left the kingdom quickly.”

On the other hand, the Saudi King Salman bin Abdul Aziz ordered the distribution of gifts among the pilgrims during their departure from Saudi Arabia, highlighting the people-to-people strong and historical bonds.

On June 5, Saudi Arabia, along with Egypt, Bahrain and UAE tuned on Qatar by a complete air and trade boycott over terrorism support and siding with the extremist government of Iran.