While several associations and political parties called for demonstrations throughout Morocco in support of Gaza, several tens of thousands marched on Sunday December 10 in Rabat to also question the normalization of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel, established in December 2020. If the country maintains its diplomatic line, demonstrators called on the authorities to call into question the Abraham Accords.
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With our correspondent in Rabat, Nadia Ben Mahfoudh
Never have voices critical of the normalization of relations between Rabat and Tel Aviv been expressed so loudly and with so much popular support. Several associations and political parties have called for manifest simultaneously in the country: the Moroccan Front in Support of Palestine and Against Normalization, as well as the National Action Group for Palestine.
In Casablanca, Mohammedia and even Tangier, demonstrators gathered to call for a ceasefire. In Rabat, the capital, a march brought together tens of thousands of people to support the Palestinian people and “ his resistance “, denounce the ” Western complicity » with Israel and above all, call into question the normalization of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel enacted by the signing of the Abraham Accords on December 10, 2020signed between Israel and several Arab countries, and negotiated by the Trump administration.
The rally in solidarity with Palestine is an opportunity for the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD) to denounce this normalization. However, he was signatory of the agreement three years ago.
“ The Abraham Accords took off on their ownargues Driss El-Azami El-Idrissi, president of the party’s National Council. Because these are agreements with a State which respects nothing, because it is a State which is genocidal, which considers itself beyond all treaties, beyond all humanity. »
The president of the Standardization Observatory Ahmed Ouihmane addresses directly to Moroccan leaders : “ By signing the normalization, you are complicit in the massacres committed by the Zionist army. You must repair this great error, because in the eyes of Moroccans, normalization is no longer and its end must be recorded by a responsible and definitive decision.. »
For his part, the Morocco stays the course and maintains its diplomatic line: preserving relations with Israel while calling for a ceasefire and the protection of civilians in Gaza.
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