The first anniversary of the Aqsa Flood led by Hamas against Israeli settlements adjacent to the Palestinian Gaza Strip, brought together Moroccans of different affiliations, professions and ages, from the far right to the far left, as well as unaffiliated citizens and prominent political and cultural figures to Rabat’s streets.
The national march, which took place in the capital on Sunday, raised strong slogans demanding the abolition of official Moroccan normalization with Israel, mourning the leaders of the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance, denouncing “Zionist terrorism” and “American wars in the region,” and refusing to negotiate over the Moroccan Sahara and the Palestinian right to its land and resistance to its occupier.
Moroccan messages
Abdelilah Benabdessalam, a leader of the Moroccan Front for Palestine Support and Anti-Normalization, said that this march sends three main messages, the first of which is “condemning the ongoing crimes and assassinations of the Zionist monster, which shows concretely that this entity is a criminal entity that should be uprooted.”
The second message is to the international community, which is unable to take any position given the role played by the colonialist West in covering up and colluding with the crimes of the Zionist entity, and the third message is to the official insistence on ”normalization relations with this criminal entity whose hands are stained with the blood of children and women.”
Abdelkader Alami, coordinator of the National Action Group for Palestine, told Hespress that this march brings out “various currents, organizations and segments of free Moroccans, who today say in one unified voice that they are with the Palestinian people and their valiant resistance, and that they strongly condemn the heinous crimes committed by the occupation army against women, men and children.”
“Moroccans have been and will always remain with the right of the Palestinian people to resist the occupation, and we say to the world that the world conscience should move to stop the massacres and stop the genocidal war against an entire people, and these voices rise to say enough of the relationship with the entity of usurpation and occupation, and the free Moroccan people do not accept that our country has a relationship with an entity that has proven to the world that it is a criminal, usurping, racist, genocidal entity against a people defending its land and its rights.”
“A mass epic”
“On the first anniversary of the glorious October 7, and on the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the massacres, massacres and genocide of the Palestinian people, and then the Lebanese people today, the Moroccan masses stand in support, support, sympathy and all forms of support for the resistance and its axis in Iran, Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Palestine,” Mustafa al-Moutassem, head of the dissolved Civilized Alternative Party, told Hespress.
“This is a mass epic in Morocco to say no to normalization, and to console the Arab and Islamic nation on the death of the [Hebrew League] (Arab League) and [Organization of the Islamic Conference], which stood by and watched the massacres of the Palestinian people and the Lebanese people, and we declare our absolute support and our readiness to extend everything we can to support our brothers and our cause, which is part of our faith in God and our holy places.”
Massoud Bouhassine, president of the Moroccan Syndicate of Dramatic Arts Professionals, said that this participation comes “within the framework of solidarity expressed by the Moroccan people, and free peoples, in support of the struggle of the Palestinian people for their legitimate rights, especially in light of the Israeli aggression against Gaza and Lebanon, in order to stabilize peace in the region and restore the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people.”
Aziz Rouibeh, head of the capital’s Bar Association, said that this participation comes “to express our anger and condemnation of the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the Zionist machine against the Palestinians and the sons and daughters of Lebanon.”
“The march comes in the context of the loyalty of Moroccans of all political, human rights and intellectual colors to a national cause that is a principle and principle,” and this is “a pause to alert to the seriousness of what the Zionist machine is doing, which is a proxy civilizational war against a civilization, land and history, although it seems specific to the place, but its repercussions affect all Arabs, Muslims and all free people of the world in all their faiths, religions and intellectual colors,” he added.
“Supporting the resistance”
In a statement to Hespress, Aous Rimal, head of the Unification and Reform Movement, said that going out today in this march came “to celebrate a clear victory for the Palestinian resistance, which after a whole year has refuted all the predictions of this enemy and its supporters who claimed and claimed that this would be a battle of days and weeks, and from under the tunnels the valiant resistance withstood the air, land and sea bombardment, and is still resisting and inflicting loss after loss on it.”
“This day marks a whole year and more of international hypocrisy practiced by the Americans, the British and the Germans, who support this usurping enemy that killed 50,000 martyrs and wounded more than 100,000 wounded and injured and say that it is defending itself, so how does it defend itself when it bombs small children and destroys hospitals, mosques, churches and places of worship with airplanes? This is a history of international hypocrisy that no longer stops at any human rights treaty or anything.”
“We do not want history to record us as Moroccans that we spent a year in humiliation, shame and normalization of relations with this usurping entity, and we say enough, and Moroccans came out today with all their orientations, choices and differences, they came out as free and honorable people who say enough of normalization, and we do not accept any relationship with this enemy, whatever its name, as it is an enemy that kills children, destroys and destroys, and does not recognize any clause of international agreements, and victory, God willing, is for the resistance, and the occupation is going away, and all who support it and support it will disappear.”
Fathallah Arsalan, deputy secretary general of the Adl wal Ihsan Group and its official spokesperson, spoke about “a long year of vigils, marches and events organized by the Moroccan people since October 7, following the criminal aggression against our brothers in Gaza, so that this march comes as the culmination of this year and on the occasion of the first anniversary of the unjust aggression against our brothers in Palestine.”
“What you see now is the Moroccan people, and this is their word, their position, and their compass is Palestine, encouraging the resistance and our solidarity with it in all arenas, and our other word is that normalization should be dropped, this criminal state that the rulers want us to normalize, deal with, and conclude agreements with at all levels, and it has been shown that the occupation does not take anyone into account, not children, women, elders, churches or mosques, and this sadistic regime should be stopped and defeated.”
“We are with the resistance, we support it and tell it that you are not alone and the whole Moroccan people are with you, and the longer this war continues, the more certain the world and its peoples become that this is a criminal, thuggish and murderous entity that we cannot deal with whatever it claims.”
Jamal Berajaa, Secretary General of the Workers’ Democratic Approach Party (Nahj), explained that this is “a mass popular demonstration that we participate in to commemorate the epic of the Al-Aqsa flood, in which the Palestinian people wrote the highest expressions of steadfastness and struggle, a memory that confirms the failure of the Zionist imperialist project in Palestine.”
“For more than a year now, the Zionist entity and its imperialist backers have been practicing a criminal war the likes of which modern history has never witnessed, including displacement, killing and occupation of all of Palestine, but this project has failed and the Palestinian resistance has failed it, as well as a larger plan to restructure the Middle East under Zionist leadership in order to ensure the perpetuation of US imperialist hegemony over the region.”
“The Moroccan people came out today, with their youth, elders, women, men, and militant forces, to send messages to inside and outside that the Palestinian cause is the cause of all Moroccans, a just national and humanitarian cause, and our enemy is the same enemy, the reactionary Zionist imperialist enemy, and that we stand in solidarity with the resistance everywhere, which is the path to liberation, and support the Palestinian people for self-determination, the return of refugees, and the building of their state on all their lands with Jerusalem as its capital.”
The Secretary General of Nahj stressed that the protesters “hold US imperialism in particular responsible for the extermination of the people of Palestine, and the United Nations and all institutions of the international system responsible for participating in the criminal war by silence or complicity by giving time to the Zionist entity to do what it does,” before concluding his statement by saying: “Our message to the Makhzeni regime is that the Moroccan people are against normalization, and the continuation of normalization encourages and supports the Zionist entity to continue its crimes against the Palestinian people, and enables the Zionist penetration that poses a danger to Morocco and the region as a whole.
From Morocco to Palestine
“The great Moroccan people always stand for what is right and for their humanity, and against Israeli aggression, and from the first day of the aggression, the Moroccan people of all spectrums, in hundreds of thousands, came out to say no to the aggression,” Jamal Shobaki, the ambassador of the State of Palestine in Morocco, told Hespress.
“What we see today in Rabat is an expression of the conscience of the Moroccan people, the conscience of the Arab and Islamic nation and the conscience of humanity,” he continued: “Enough silence on these crimes and genocide, for which everyone who is silent bears responsibility, and this stain of shame on the forehead of humanity is that Israel continues this genocide without being punished or held accountable for its crimes.”
The Palestinian ambassador in Rabat concluded his statement to Hespress by emphasizing: “We want an end to the aggression and peace for our people, who are the victims of what is happening.”
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