Palestinian Muslims living in Israel are not allowed to do Hajj or Umrah, that's the reason

Liputan6.com, Tel Aviv – Hundreds of thousands to one million Palestinian Muslims who are in the occupied territories of Israel are barred from entering Saudi Arabia and therefore can not worship Hajj and Umrah in Mecca and Madinah. This ban was applied after the Saudis had changed their rules on immigration.

In the background, Israel and Saudi Arabia do not have diplomatic relations; therefore, Israelis are prohibited from entering Saudi Arabia.

However, Muslims in Israel, who are mainly of Palestinian origin and live in the occupied territories, are allowed to enter only for worship.

The permit began in 1978. In accordance with the decision of King Hussein in Jordan, Muslims in Israel who wish to go on a pilgrimage to Mecca can travel to Jordan first, where they issue a temporary Jordanian pbadport allowing them to travel to Jordan. enter and exit from Saudi Arabia.

But now, Saudi Arabia has changed its rules. Members of the Hajj and Umrah Committee for Muslims in Israel have recently learned that Palestinian Muslims in the territories occupied by Israel are not allowed to enter Saudi Arabia, even with a temporary Jordanian pbadport, according to the website. Internet of the Israeli newspaper. Haaretz.

This also applies to Palestinian Muslims in Jordan, Lebanon and East Jerusalem, quoted by an Indian newspaper Daily tactTuesday (13/11/2018).

The policy, according to the report Daily tact, entered into force on September 12, 2018.

This information was obtained by the Hajj and Umrah Committee for Muslims in Israel when the agency wanted to regulate the Umrah permits scheduled for December 2018.

Committee Chair Salim Shalata said Haaretz in contact with the Jordanian Ministry of Islamic Waqf Affairs and Holy Places, he learned that the Saudi authorities would no longer allow Muslims from Israeli-occupied territories who entered using Saudi Arabia to 39, use temporary pbadports.

Anyone wishing to enter Saudi Arabia must have a regular pbadport, a change that effectively prevents Muslims from occupied Israeli territory from making pilgrimages.

Shalata said that during the past 40 years, the agreement was in place, that its implementation had not been impeded and that there were thousands of Muslim pilgrims in Israeli territory busy traveling each year.

"We have no explanation for what happened, so we appealed to all the possibilities of badistance, but we are sorry that the pilgrimage planned for December, to which thousands of people have registered, not be done, "said Shalata.

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