Moroccans have taken to the streets yesterday in Rabat to protest Israel’s continuing airstrikes, and its ground invasion, on the Gaza strip, which resulted just during the very same day, Sunday, in the killing of at least 87 Palestinians, without mentioning the death toll that is floating around 450 since the start of the attacks.
The demonstration of Rabat was described as “Al Kharja al Millioniya,” which translates to “the demonstration of the Million People,” in reference to the number of people who turned out in the surroundings of the Moroccan parliament to protest.
Many people from all wakes of the Moroccan society and from all stripes of the Moroccan Political scene were seen, hand in hand, protesting and denouncing “the genocide taking place in the open-air prison of Gaza,” as one of the protestors put it.
Many Moroccan Ministers were seen among the fool of protestors. They were all quite energetic and shouted as well among the crowd of protestors. This includes the Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs Salaheddine Mezouar as well as his predecessor Saad-Eddine El Othmani, the Moroccan Minister of Youth and Sports Ouzzine, the Minister of Relations with the Parliament and Civil Society El Habib Choubani, the Minister of Tourism Lahcen Haddad, the Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research Lahcen Daoudi, the Minister of Housing and Policy of the City Mohamed Nabil Benabdallah, the Minister of State Abdellah Baha, the Minister of Equipment, Transport and logistics Abdelaziz Rabbah and many others.
The Secretary Generals of leading opposition parties were seen as well protesting among the fool. This includes the head of Al Istiqlal Party Hamid Chabat, Driss Lachgar the head of the Socialist Union of Popular Forces, Mustapha Bakkoury the head of the Authenticity and Modernity Party, Nabila Mounib head of the Moroccan Socialist party and others.
Most of the people that took to the streets belong to the banned but tolerated, due to its huge number of followers in Morocco, Justice and Spirituality Association, founded by Abdesslam Yassine.
People from all wakes of ideologies forgot their differences and focused on a sole thing: “denouncing the Zionist oppression of Palestinians, which resulted in the killing, up to know, of at least 450 people, from which 80% are civilians and 25% are children,” one of the protestors said.
The protestors were shouting slogans that called upon the immediate stopping of Morocco’s normalization of relations with Israel.
Among the slogans that were shouted, the one could hear, “Palestine Amana, Al Tatbi3e Khiyana,” which translates to “Palestine is a trust, normalization is a betrayal,” and “Ghaza Ghaza Ramzou al Izza,” which translates to “Gaza Gaza, Landmark of Glory.”
Other slogans blamed Obama and the west leaders’ nonchalance in regards to the extermination of Palestinians in the Gaza open-air prison.
Examples of such slogans were “ Amoual Sahayin kat sad fem Obama w l3arbiyine,” which may translate to: “the Zionist lobby’s money keeping quiet Obama and the West,” and “galha Chomsky, ya Obama, galha Chomsky,” which may translate to “Chomsky said so, Hey Obama, Chomsky said so,” in reference to MIT Emeritus professor Noam Chomsky’s books where he says that the Zionist lobby’s money control the U.S. decision making.
The protesters were also calling upon the Arab leaders to act politically to stop this when shouting “Oh Arabs Where are you. Where are you, Palestine is calling you.”
The demonstration literally stopped for around 10 minutes to echo a phone call of Khaled Mashal, the Palestinian political leader of the Hamas political bureau, to the protestors where he thanked the Moroccans for their support in regards to this humanitarian cause (video underneath).
Khaled Mashal gave also an account of the current situation in Gaza.
The Moroccan Times.
