Moroccan Activists Protest Visit of Israeli Army Chief

Dozens of human rights activists demonstrated in entrance of the Moroccan parliament constructing within the capital Rabat on Monday in protest on the go to of the Chief of Workers of the Israeli occupation military, Aviv Kochavi, the Center East Monitor reported.

The protest was known as by the favored Nationwide Motion Group for Palestine, which opposes the normalisation between Morocco and Israel. Demonstrators chanted slogans condemning the go to and normalization.

Final month, Israeli navy officers participated as observers in a serious navy drill in Morocco, which noticed the participation of troops from the US, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Chad, Brazil, the UK and others.https://t.co/tQ5bISYLF9

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Kochavi arrived in Morocco as a part of the framework to strengthen navy and safety cooperation between Tel Aviv and Rabat, which began to take form in April 2020. He’s anticipated to satisfy with senior officers within the navy institution in Morocco. That is the primary public go to of its sort and can final three days.

In response to the top of the Moroccan Observatory in opposition to Normalization, Ahmed Wehman, the protest represented “condemnation of the go to of the struggle legal,” who, as he put it, “shed the blood of hundreds of Lebanese and Arab Palestinians.”

The Israeli military chief is reportedly on a go to to Morocco beginning Monday, in what is taken into account the highest-profile navy engagement between Israel and the North African Arab nation. https://t.co/7OiWFKcza7 pic.twitter.com/3lmXHfsHF5

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Wehman instructed Anadolu information company that Kochavi’s place “is in courtroom in order that justice can have its say with him, and he will probably be punished for what he has dedicated together with his palms, that are stained with the blood of innocents.”

Israel and Morocco signed a safety memorandum of understanding on the finish of November final yr through the go to of Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz to Rabat. Diplomatic relations between the 2 international locations have been resumed in December 2020 after a break of twenty years. Morocco froze relations following the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada in 2000.

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