Rabat hosted a collective hunger strike on Tuesday organized by the Moroccan Observatory Against Normalization and the National Working Group for Palestine, as part of a coordinated international campaign of solidarity with Gaza.
The action, staged at the Group’s headquarters, was accompanied by a press conference where activists denounced the ongoing blockade, famine, and forced displacement in the territory, while criticizing Morocco’s normalization of ties with Israel.
Latifa Bouhssini, historian at Mohammed V University and human rights advocate, told participants that the hunger strike joined similar actions in over 100 cities worldwide, particularly in the Arab world.
She said the mobilization aimed not only to support Gazans under siege but also to protest what she described as Morocco’s political endorsement of Israel through normalization.
Bouhssini pointed to near-daily demonstrations in Tangier as evidence of popular opposition, calling normalization “an act humiliating for the Moroccan people.”
Khadija Sbar, a member of a Palestinian solidarity association, described the situation in Gaza as “the catastrophe of the century,” stressing that the conflict no longer resembles a military confrontation but rather a campaign targeting civilians, women, and children. She accused the United States and NATO of providing decisive backing to Israel and called Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “responsible for atrocities that should land him in prison.”
Sbar added that Israel’s assault has destroyed hospitals, schools, and civilian infrastructure, demanding an end to what she labeled genocide.
She further urged Arab leaders to abandon silence and act decisively against impunity, asserting: “It is the colonizers who must leave, not the Palestinians.”
The Rabat event forms part of a sustained wave of mobilization in Morocco since October 7, with marches, sit-ins, and international campaigns multiplying in solidarity with Palestine.
Activists vow to maintain pressure both against Israel’s military campaign and against normalization policies they argue contradict Morocco’s longstanding grassroots support for the Palestinian cause.
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