Saudi Gazette reports
JEDDAH — The ongoing massive evacuation operation from Sudan is the best example of Saudi Arabia’s exemplary role as the Kingdom of humanity. It has mobilized all its resources to ensure the safe evacuation of hundreds of people trapped in the conflict-zones of Sudan on a daily basis. As of Friday, the total number of people evacuated from Sudan reached around 3000.
The Kingdom is keen on ensuring the comfort of evacuees with making available all the facilities and services for them. The Saudi authorities have made the necessary arrangements in this regard, including the removal of language barriers of the evacuees along with facilitating proper communication with them.
Accordingly, the security forces greeted many foreigners in their own languages. The Royal Saudi Navy members welcomed several Chinese and other nationals in the Chinese and English languages upon their arrival at Jeddah Islamic Port.
Social media users circulated many video clips in which Saudi soldiers were seen giving warm reception to the evacuees, greeting them in their own languages. Several members of the security forces, who are proficient in multiple foreign languages, have been deployed at the Jeddah airport and sea port to welcome the evacuees from different nations in their own languages. The security forces have the proficiency in these languages since they were engaged in serving the Hajj and Umrah pilgrims from all over the world.
Meanwhile, A new batch of 195 evacuees landed in Jeddah on Friday. This brings the total number of evacuees from Sudan since the beginning of the massive evacuation operation reached 2991 persons. These included 119 Saudi citizens and 2872 people from 80 nationalities.
Those who arrived at Jeddah Islamic Port on board HMS Makkah ship included the nationals of Pakistan, Palestine, Thailand, Mauritania, Sri Lanka, USA, Poland, India, UK, Austria, Indonesia, Canada, Iraq, Egypt, Australia and Syria. Earlier on Friday, 52 nationals from the United Kingdom, South Africa, Russia, Ghana, Lebanon, USA, Niger, Bangladesh, Libya, Canada, and Guinea arrived in Jeddah on board HMS Jubail ship.
Saudi Arabia started the evacuation operation in line with the directives of Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman.
The battles that erupted in Sudan on April 15 between the Sudan Armed Forces led by Lt. Gen. Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan and the Rapid Support Forces led by Lt. Gen. Muhammad Hamdan Dagalo prompted the countries of the world to evacuate their nationals, while tens of thousands of people fled from the conflict zones to other states, or to the neighboring countries of Chad and Egypt.
According to the Sudanese Ministry of Health, a total of 512 people were killed and 4,000 injured in the clashes.