Tens of thousands of people demonstrated today in Casablanca, Moroccoexpressing their solidarity with the Palestinians and their opposition to the normalization of their country’s relations with Israel.

“Stop the genocide in Gaza”, “Open the Rafah crossing” and “Close the Zionist office in Rabat” were written on the banners held by the gathered.

The demonstration was organized on the initiative of the “Moroccan Front of Support to Palestine and Against Normalization” in which leftist parties and Islamists participate. THE Jamal El Asrithe coordinator of this front, spoke of “hundreds of thousands” of participants, noting that this mobilization “proves once again that the Moroccan people speak with one voice, that of support for Palestine”.

Men, women and children gathered on a central artery of the city holding Palestinian flags. “We came to express our solidarity with the Palestinian people, to ask for the lifting of the blockade Gaza and ending the war,” he told AFP Amina Buchelhal.

The Morocco and Israel normalized diplomatic relations in December 2020 under the Abraham Accords, a process supported by Washington.