Four Arab Countries, namely Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut their relationships and their maritime, land and air borders with the State of Qatar and imposed un unethical and illegal blockade on the State of Qatar On June,5th,2017.
These countries also took measures including expulsion of Qatari citizens from the three Gulf Countries within no later than 14 days, and asked their citizens to leave the State of Qatar within two weeks and not to visit Qatar, in addition to other measures.
With the illegal and unethical blockade entering its second year, it is imperative to highlight the humanitarian impacts of the blockade which has been violating the individual and family rights of Qatari citizens, and their rights to education, movement, health, work and personal properties:
Family Disintegration: unethical measures imposed by the blockade countries have caused unjustifiable human cases and forced unified families to disintegrate. These measures taken by the Quartet against Qatar have had terrible consequences for family life, causing temporary and possibly permanent disruption to families across all the effected nations.
Right to Property: the blockade has caused great loses in wealth and money of Qatari nationals who are forced to leave the blockade countries within no later than two weeks which is not sufficient enough to handle their properties, knowing that Qatari national’s own houses, estates and investments in the blockade countries and they were unable to handle their properties since the beginning of the blockade.
Right to Education: Qatari students were prevented from either pursuing their studies or passing their exams. Many students in these countries were ordered to immediately return to Qatar, often by the administration of universities
Right to Movement: more than 11387 nationals of the three blockade countries residing in Qatar, and 1927 Qatari nationals live in the blockade countries, all were prevented to move, after closing borders with Qatar.
Right to Employment: many Gulf citizens lost their jobs in the State of Qatar, and prevented to generate incomes.
Below a short video that presents statements of some Qatari officials, namely H.E Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman AL Thani, Deputy prime minister and minister of foreign affairs, H.E. Sultan Bin Saad al Muraikhi, State Minister for Foreign Affairs, H.E Dr. Ahmed bin Hassan Al Hammadi, Secretary General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
The video also, shows some cases of violations caused by the blockade.
Moreover, the video presents statements of some international officials about unilateral coercive decisions and measures taken by the blockade countries against the State of Qatar.
The video link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHYUCohLjCk&t=149s