Last year, Saudi Arabia announced it was cutting off relations with Qatar, but now, Saudi Arabia is literally cutting Qatar off, making it into an island.
Qatar is a small peninsula in the Persian Gulf and only shares a land border with Saudi Arabia.
According to Business Insider, five companies are currently bidding to build a canal along Saudi Arabia’s and Qatar’s 61 km border. The canal will be named the “Salwa Channel” and the Saudis hope it will be completed within a year.
Saudi Arabia is accepting bids until June 25 for plan to dig a maritime canal along the kingdom's border with Qatar — Makkah newspaperhttps://t.co/ck85QJlgMh pic.twitter.com/UGllBN4x9l
— Mohamad Bazzi (@BazziNYU) June 18, 2018
The tensions began last year after Saudi Arabia began its boycott of Qatar, citing Qatar’s support of terrorist organizations and its questionable loyalties regarding Iran.. – READ MORE
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