Strikes on Gaza: Morocco condemns and claims an immediate ceasefire

Morocco strongly condemned the recent Israeli strikes on Thursday who caused hundreds of victims in the Gaza Strip since Monday.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans residing abroad, Nasser Bourita, expressed the conviction “in the strongest terms” at a press conference held at the end of the 1266ᵉ Ministerial Meeting of the African Union Peace and Security Council. He stressed that the kingdom closely follows the escalation of violence against civilian populations in Palestinian territory.

Qualifying these attacks on contrary to peace efforts in the region, he urged all the parties involved to work for an “immediate ceasefire”. In parallel, vast demonstrations took place Tuesday evening in several Moroccan cities, where thousands of people expressed their indignation in the face of Israeli bombing on Gaza.

In Casablanca, Rabat and Tangier, the demonstrators brandished Palestinian flags and banners denouncing a “genocide” and a “holocaust” in Gaza, while chanting slogans against the normalization of relations with Israel and in support of the Palestinian people.

On Tuesday, after several weeks of impasse, Israel has led its deadliest strikes on Gaza since the entry into force of the truce on January 19. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that these attacks were “only the beginning”.

These massive bombing ended the relative calm that reigned in the Gaza Strip from the ceasefire, after fifteen months of an unprecedented conflict by the Hamas attack on Israeli soil on October 7, 2023.