Afrigather Moroccans rallied in assist of Palestinians in Casablanca on Sunday, calling for a everlasting ceasefire in Gaza and for an finish to diplomatic relations with Israel.
Tens of hundreds lined the streets of Casablanca, waving Palestinian flags and sporting the distinctive black and white keffiyeh scarves.
Protesters referred to as for an finish to relations between Morocco and Israel, three years after their normalisation in 2020 as a part of a broader course of between Israel and a number of other Arab nations.
Within the years since, the variety of pro-Palestinian demonstrations within the North African nation had seen a marked decline however the struggle between Israel and Hamas, which started following the Hamas assault on October 7, has sparked a contemporary wave of pro-Palestinian sentiment.
“What we want just isn’t a truce, however a definitive ceasefire in order that we are able to sit down collectively and provides peace an opportunity,” mentioned Socialist MP Nabila Mounib. “The creation of a sovereign Palestinian state with Al-Quds as its capital, the potential of the return of all of the exiles from the whole Palestinian diaspora and the discharge of the prisoners within the jails of the Zionist state.”
The protests got here on the third day of a four-day ceasefire between Israel and Hamas, following seven weeks of struggle which has resulted within the deaths of virtually 15,000 Palestinians and 1,200 Israelis, in keeping with officers from each side.
