Today, Wednesday morning, the third naval evacuation convoy arrived at King Faisal Base in Jeddah, coming from Port Sudan, after a journey that took nearly 8 hours.
The King Faisal Naval Base in Jeddah received, with flowers and sweets, the passengers of the largest evacuation operation so far from Sudan, amidst greetings and applause from the passengers of the ship “Amana” for the Saudi security forces upon its arrival at the port.
The ship “Amana” arrived under the protection of the Saudi naval forces with 1,687 people of 58 nationalities on board. It was received by a number of officials, ambassadors and representatives of some diplomatic missions.
The camera of “Al-Arabiya” and “Al-Hadath” was present on board the ship as soon as it docked in Jeddah, where a number of the ship’s passengers talked about the suffering they faced before reaching safety.
Watch.. Greetings and applause from the passengers of the “Amana” ship to the Saudi security forces, the moment the ship arrived at the port #grandmother On board were 1,687 people of 58 nationalities, in the largest evacuation operation from #Sudan
@sultan_mr_ pic.twitter.com/IU6cfGQ463– Saudi Arabia (@AlArabiya_KSA) April 26, 2023
The evacuation ship carried 46 Americans, 40 Britons, 11 Germans, 4 French and 13 Saudis, as well as 560 Indonesians, 239 Yemenis, 198 Sudanese and 26 Turks.
This is the third evacuation flight to reach Saudi Arabia, coming from Sudan.
In an official statement, the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the ship carrying 1,687 civilians fleeing violence in Sudan had arrived in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday, in the largest rescue operation of its kind that the Kingdom has carried out so far.
The group was transported “by one of the Kingdom’s ships,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement, stressing the Kingdom’s keenness to “provide all the basic needs of foreign nationals in preparation for their departure to their countries.”
Yesterday, Tuesday, the Secretary-General of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Jassem Muhammad Al-Budaiwi, praised the great diplomatic and logistical role that Saudi Arabia provided in the process of evacuating its citizens and the nationals of a number of Gulf, brotherly and friendly countries, and a number of civilians, diplomats and international officials.
Al-Budaiwi thanked the leadership of the Kingdom, led by the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, “for their directives and direct follow-up to the process of evacuating the nationals, which took place with ease and ease, until their safe and secure arrival in the city of Jeddah, and the provision of all needs for them in preparation for their departure to their homelands.”
