After days of protests in front of the embassy .. Egypt is taking exceptional trips to return the stranded in Qatar

The Egyptian Ministry of Aviation announced the launch of 18 exceptional flights to return the Egyptians stranded in the State of Qatar, starting from the 13th of this month.

A statement by the ministry through its official page on the Facebook site that the number of Egyptian stranded in the State of Qatar is 3 thousand, and they will be transferred to the Sultanate of Oman and from there to the country.

And Egypt - in partnership with Saudi Arabia, the Emirates and Bahrain - imposed a blockade on the State of Qatar three years ago, which includes the closure of the airspace, which caused the suffering of tens of thousands of Egyptians during their travel between Qatar and Egypt, where they are forced to travel through alternative stations and not on direct flights.

A source in the Qatari Foreign Ministry had confirmed earlier to the island Cairo's refusal to receive a Spanish plane chartered by Doha last April to return the Egyptian stranded in Qatar to their country.

And at the end of last May, members of the Egyptian community demonstrated in front of their country's embassy in Doha, demanding that their government intervene to return them to their homeland.

Social media has shared photos and videos of these protesters who have been stranded in Qatar, and the Corona Virus crisis has caused some of them to stop working.

These protesters raised slogans and banners denouncing what they considered the government’s neglect of its citizens in the State of Qatar, demanding that they be returned in the same way that the government itself did with Egyptians residing in other countries.

During the previous period, the communication sites witnessed protests from Egyptians stranded in several countries, especially Kuwait and Saudi Arabia, to demand their return, and some accused the Egyptian authorities of neglect and procrastination in responding to their demands, amid difficult circumstances most of them go through due to stopping work, and relying on aid to provide for their daily needs.

The Egyptian government did not bother with repeated appeals from its citizens in Kuwait only after some of them demonstrated, and this led to the intervention of the Kuwaiti authorities, and this was followed by a skirmish between the two sides on social media sites, where Kuwaiti activists accused the Egyptian government of abandoning its citizens.