Saudi citizens and teachers Abdulrahman bin Maqbool Al-Sharari and Salem bin Misfer al-Ghamdi arrived back home this evening coming from the Republic of Djibouti. They arrived at King Khalid Airport International Riyadh accompanied by United Nations envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed and Ambassador of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques to Yemen Mohammed bin Saeed Al Jaber and deputy United Nations envoy to Yemen Kenny Gluck. They were received by Minister of Education Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Issa, a number of employees of the ministry and their families. It is worth mentioning that the two Saudi teachers were working in the Republic of the Comoros at a Muslim World League institute. On Thursday, 5 Jumada II 1436 H, they left King Abdul Aziz Airport in Jeddah to the city of Moroni via Sana'a. After transit arrival, flights were suspended due to start of Operation Determination Storm. They were hosted by United Nations Mission in the Movenpick Hotel in Sana'a where the headquarters of the United Nations mission. Then came a Houthi armed rebel group came, detained them and took them to an unknown location and remained hostages during the last period until they were handed to UN envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed on 4 Rabi'II 1437 H. They were taken to Djibouti were they were received by Saudi Ambassador to Yemen and from there they were taken to Riyadh. they will undergo comprehensive and integrated medical examinations and they will also be provided with the necessary health care in line with care by Saudi leaders. For their part, the two Saudi citizens expressed their thanks and gratitude to the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, the Crown Prince, and the Deputy Crown Prince for their care and interest in returning the two citizens safely to the homeland. They expressed their overwhelming happiness for returning home and seeing their families and relatives, noting the bad treatment they were subjected to. For his part, Saudi ambassador to Yemen Mohammed bin Saad Al Jaber stressed that since the first moment of the kidnapping of the two Saudi citizens by the Houthi militias, the directives by Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud were to search for them and check on their health and work to release them in various ways as the state apparatus with all its channels worked on taking them out until all efforts culminated in taking them out with the help of the United Nations envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed, congratulating the leadership, the families of al-Ghamdi and Sharari and all the Saudi people on their return home unharmed. On negotiations mechanism with the Houthi militias, UN envoy to Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed stressed that there were no special procedures except requesting their release for more than 6 months and taking preparations with follow-up by the Saudi Ambassador to Yemen, as well as a number of the cause's supporting embassies. He said, 'When I arrived in Yemen, one of the points raised was taking into account that their cause was a humanitarian issue as they are teachers and have nothing to do with politics.' For his part, the Minister of Education, Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed Al-Issa expressed his happiness for the arrival of the teachers in the homeland, stressing the care of the Saudi leaders for the teachers' safety since the first day of their kidnapping until their release.
