Several tens of thousands of people came to Rabat on Sunday, October 6, for the first commemoration of the start of the war in Gaza and to show their support for the Palestinian people, calling for a break in relations between Rabat and Israel, journalists from the Agency reported. . France-Presse (AFP).
“The resistance does not die”, “People want the end of normalization”Protesters chanted in front of Parliament in the center of Morocco’s capital, while signs proclaimed: “We do not recognize Israel”, “We consider Palestine as a national cause”testifies to AFP Khadija Mokhtari, a 56-year-old retiree living in Rabat, who came to demonstrate against “The blatant injustice, the Israeli massacre, the genocide [des Palestiniens] ».
The march was held on the eve of the first commemoration of the Hamas attack that sparked the war, at the call of the National Action Group for Palestine, which brings together left-wing groups and the Justice and Justice Development Party (Islamist).
Among numerous Palestinian and Lebanese flags, some portraits of the leaders of the Palestinian Islamist movement and the Lebanese Hezbollah were brandished, including those of Ismaïl Haniyeh and Hassan Nasrallah, murdered respectively in July and September in raids attributed to Israel or claimed by the Jewish State. noted the AFP.
“We must end relations with Israel”
“They are going to kill all the Palestinian people for their land. Arab and Muslim leaders must step forward.”estimates Noufissa Souad, 39, from Khemisset, about 90 kilometers away. “We must cut relations with Israel, because we are hand in hand with the enemy”judges this radiology technician.
Since the start of the war in Gaza, there have been several large-scale demonstrations in Morocco demanding an end to the normalization of relations with Israel, a process that until then met with only limited opposition. The kingdom officially called “towards an immediate, comprehensive and lasting end to the Israeli war in Gaza”without questioning standardization.
The Hamas attack on Israeli soil killed 1,205 people, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli figures, including hostages who died or were killed in captivity in the Palestinian enclave.
During the current Israeli-led offensive, at least 41,870 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip, most of them civilians, according to figures from the Hamas government’s Ministry of Health, considered reliable by the United Nations.
