Joy for Qataris as Saudi border reopens
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Qataris celebrated crossing their border with Saudi Arabia yesterday after the ending of a five-year Gulf diplomatic thaw.
Drivers arrived at the Salwa border crossing in Saudi Arabia, 500 kilometers east of the kingdom鈥檚 capital Riyadh, from the Qatari land crossing at Abu Samrah for the second day following its reopening.
鈥淐oming from Qatar is like coming to our second country, where there鈥檚 no difference between them and us in their traditions,鈥 said Mohammed al-Marri, a Qatari who had traveled into Saudi Arabia.
Since the reopening of the border, 167 Qatari cars had entered Saudi Arabia, while 35 Qatari vehicles had crossed back into Qatar, said Ali Lablabi, general manager of Salwa鈥檚 customs department.
鈥淭his happiness 鈥 no one can describe it,鈥 said Ghaith al-Marri, a Qatari.
鈥淭here are people who started crying鈥 when the border reopened, he said.
Qatar Airways and Saudi Airlines announced on Saturday on Twitter that they would begin resuming flights from today.
Saudi Arabia shut its side of Qatar鈥檚 only land border in June 2017 as part of a package of sanctions it said was a response to Doha鈥檚 backing of radical Islamist groups.
The kingdom, along with the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt, agreed to lift the restrictions at a Gulf Cooperation Council summit last Tuesday.
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