KUALA LUMPUR: The supervisory committee of the Makkah Route Initiative is continuing its tour of countries to follow up on efforts to implement it.
The tour includes Malaysia, Indonesia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, India and Tunisia. The initiative’s implementation started two years ago, under the directives of King Salman and the crown prince, to enhance services for Hajj pilgrims and to facilitate their journeys.
The initiative includes issuing visas, ensuring compliance with health requirements, and codifying and sorting luggage at airports in pilgrims’ own countries.
This enables pilgrims to bypass these procedures upon arrival in the Kingdom, and to head directly to buses waiting to transport them to their accommodations in Makkah and Madinah.
Under the initiative, service authorities deliver pilgrims’ luggage to their accommodations in those cities.
In Malaysia, the committee held a meeting with officials, examined preparations for the initiative’s implementation for the 2019 Hajj season, and toured Kuala Lumpur’s international airport.
Makkah Route Initiative to enhance facilities
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Makkah Route Initiative to enhance facilities
- The initiative includes issuing visas, ensuring compliance with health requirements, and codifying and sorting luggage at airports in pilgrims’ own countries
Saudi foreign ministry condemns demolition of UNRWA buildings in Jerusalem by Israel
- Israeli bulldozers demolished structures inside Sheikh Jarrah compound on Tuesday
- Kingdom expresses support for beleaguered UN agency in statement
RIYADH: The Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the demolition of buildings belonging to the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees by Israeli occupation forces in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied Jerusalem.
The ministry rejected Israeli violations of international law and held the international community responsible for addressing the Israeli policy of “crimes against international relief organizations,” the Saudi Press Agency reported.
It added: “Saudi Arabia expresses its support for UNRWA in its humanitarian mission to provide relief to the brotherly Palestinian people, and calls on the international community to protect relief organizations, their workers and their facilities.”
On Tuesday, Israeli bulldozers demolished structures inside UNRWA’s compound in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of Jerusalem after storming the area and sealing off the surrounding streets, according to Wafa news agency.
