{"id":75919,"date":"2025-06-02T06:45:37","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T06:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=75919"},"modified":"2025-06-02T06:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T06:45:37","slug":"mecca-saudi-arabia-launches-hajj-permit-crackdown-in-bid-to-stop-heat-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2025\/06\/02\/mecca-saudi-arabia-launches-hajj-permit-crackdown-in-bid-to-stop-heat-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"Mecca: Saudi Arabia launches Hajj permit crackdown in bid to stop heat deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-75920\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mecca-heat-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mecca-heat-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mecca-heat-360x240.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mecca-heat.jpeg 534w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Saudi Arabian authorities have stopped over 269,000 individuals without the necessary permits from entering\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/mecca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Mecca<\/a>\u00a0ahead of the annual\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/hajj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;destination&quot;,&quot;t&quot;:13,&quot;a&quot;:&quot;click&quot;,&quot;b&quot;:1,&quot;c.t&quot;:7}\">Hajj<\/a> pilgrimage, officials announced on Sunday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/news\/world\/saudi-arabia-stops-269-678-muslims-without-hajj-permits-from-entering-mecca\/ar-AA1FSMrr?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=HCTS&amp;cvid=04292b3487954635bae59491ac44dc2b&amp;ei=21\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Saudi Arabian authorities have stopped over 269,000 individuals without the necessary permits from entering\u00a0Mecca\u00a0ahead of the annual\u00a0Hajj pilgrimage, officials announced on Sunday&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":75920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-75919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Mecca-heat.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75921,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75919\/revisions\/75921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}