The Polisario front said it prepares to extend its military operation into Moroccan cities Laayoune, Dakhla, Smara, and Boujdou, announced Mohamed Luali Akeik, the army chief of general staff.
“The military war has begun now, and will continue in the future, and include the cities of the Sahara,” Akeik said, reported Spanish La Razon.
“Sahrawi youths are ready to fight by all available methods in the desert,” he added.
The attacks they said would not affect civilians.
In November 2020, the Polisario Front resumed its armed campaign in Western Sahara breaking a ceasefire that had lasted 30 years.
The Polisario front has for months published reports that Algerian state media dutifully picks up, claiming ‘violent attacks and bombing’ on most Moroccan military outposts west of the berm, at times extending over areas in Guelmim and Souss-Massa.
These alleged strikes have presumably caused ‘devastating’ losses to the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces.
Experts say the attacks are unrealistic and take place in the UN buffer zone, 5 km east of the Morocco-built berm, where Polisario militants are confronted with a 2,700km defense line loaded with minefields, drone detection systems, and tens of thousands of soldiers on guard.
With their ailing 71-year-old leader Brahim Ghali, Polisario operates on obsolete weaponry that’s previously been supplied by Ghadafi’s Libya, North Korea, and Algeria.
Morocco’s foreign affairs minister, Nasser Bourita said during the inter-ministerial meeting on Daesh earlier this month that one particular trend plages the spread of terror in Africa is the terrorism-separatism nexus, which he called the two sides of the same coin.
“Those who finance, shelter, support, and weaponize separatism, are actually contributing to spread terrorism and further compromise regional peace and security. Let us not be mistaken: encouraging separatism is tantamount to complicity with terrorism.”
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