Several tens of thousands of people flocked to Rabat on Sunday to mark the first anniversary of the pogrom perpetrated by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas on October 7 in southern Israel, calling for a break in relations between Rabat and Israel, reports noted. AFP journalists.
“The resistance does not die”, “The people want the end of normalization”, protesters chanted near Parliament, in the center of the Moroccan 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 what she calls “the flagrant injustice, the Israeli killings, the genocide” Palestinians.
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The march took place on the eve of the first commemoration of the barbaric and sadistic assault by the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas on southern Israel on October 7, at the call of the National Action Group for Palestine, bringing together left-wing groups and the Islamist Justice and Development Party.
Among numerous Palestinian and Lebanese flags, some portraits of the leaders of the Palestinian terrorist group and the Lebanese Shiite terrorist group Hezbollah were brandished, including those of Ismaïl Haniyeh and Hassan Nasrallah, respectively eliminated in July and September in strikes attributed or claimed by Israel, noted AFP.
“They are going to kill all the Palestinian people, for their land. Arab and Muslim leaders must come forward,” said Noufissa Souad, 39, from Khemisset, some 90 km away. “We must stop relations with Israel because we are hand in hand with the enemy,” judges this radiology technician.
Since the start of the war against Hamas, several large-scale demonstrations have taken place in Morocco to demand an end to the normalization of relations with Israel, a process which until then met with only limited opposition.
The kingdom officially called for “an immediate, global and lasting end to the Israeli war on Gaza”, without calling into question the normalization adopted in 2020.
The war in Gaza erupted when some 6,000 Gazans including 3,800 terrorists led by Hamas stormed southern Israel on October 7, killed more than 1,200 people, mostly civilians, kidnapped 251 hostages of all ages , and committed numerous atrocities and using sexual violence as a weapon on a large scale.
In response to this pogrom, the deadliest in the country’s history and the worst carried out against Jews since the Holocaust, Israel, which vowed to annihilate Hamas and free the hostages, launched an air operation followed by a ground incursion into the Gaza Strip, which began on October 27.
More than 41,000 people have died in Gaza since the start of the war, according to the Hamas Ministry of Health. The figures released by the terrorist group are unverifiable, and they reportedly include its own terrorists, killed in Israel and Gaza, and civilians killed by the hundreds of rockets fired by the terrorist groups that fall inside the Gaza Strip.
Israel says it has killed 17,000 terrorists in combat. The IDF also claims to have killed a thousand terrorists inside the country on October 7.
An estimated 97 of the 251 hostages kidnapped by Hamas on October 7, 2023 are still in Gaza, including the bodies of 33 hostages whose deaths were confirmed by the Israeli military.
The Palestinian terrorist group also holds two Israeli civilians who entered the Gaza Strip in 2014 and 2015, as well as the bodies of two soldiers killed in 2014.
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