Sanaa reveals number of Yemeni pilgrims who will perform Hajj rituals

SANAA, Jun. 26 (YPA) – The Director General of Hajj and Umrah sector, Abdul Rahman al-Noaimi, said that the Saudi regime allowed only 11,000 Yemeni pilgrims to perform Hajj this year .

Al-Noaimi explained the Saudi regime has put conditions on the Yemenis who want to preform Hajj, one of them, is that the people who will go to Hajj must be under the age of 65 and they must have passports issued from Aden’s authorities,  in addition to doubling the cost of Hajj by 100% to a minimum of 16,000 Saudi riyals .

For his part, Walid Abdullah Al-Waadi, head of the General Authority for Land Transport Regulatory Affairs, said that the authority had put forward an initiative to open roads to pilgrims, but the coalition rejected it and forced them to travel by road through nine Yemeni provinces.

The coalition requires Yemeni pilgrims to travel up to 1,500 kilometers instead of the proposed lines, which do not exceed 513 kilometers, some of which are 287 kilometers.

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