47 Moroccan soldiers killed, 113 injured in the first half of 2024

The Moroccan regime has been trying every time to deny the existence of a war with the Polisario Front since the ceasefire collapsed on November 13, 2020, following the Moroccan army’s attack on Sahrawi activists at the Guerguerat crossing who were demonstrating peacefully, but the answer came this time from a former Moroccan officer, Abdel-Ilah Aissou.
In a video broadcast on the “Channel of the former Moroccan officer, Abdel-Ilah Aissou” on “YouTube”, the Moroccan officer revealed, based on his own sources within the Moroccan army, that the outcome of the first six months of the current year 2024 witnessed the killing of 47 Moroccan soldiers and the injury of 113 as a result of the shelling of the Sahrawi army.
Abdelilah Aissou, a former lieutenant in the Moroccan army, submitted his resignation in protest against the corruption and chaos prevailing within the Royal Moroccan Armed Forces, which he witnessed during his work in the Moroccan army for 12 years (from 1988 to 2000), and he held the Moroccan army leaders responsible for stealing the funds allocated to build fortifications against guided missiles.
These figures include the operational sectors or the so-called three military regions in the south: Wadi Draa, Saguia el-Hamra and Wadi al-Dhahab, noting that he is well aware of the sounds of bombs and missiles emitted by the combat units of the Sahrawi army, as he witnessed them directly on the front line in Western Sahara.
The former Moroccan army officer attributed the fall of the victims from the Royal Army to the absence of any facilities that provide protection for soldiers from attacks and shelling by the Sahrawi army. “Given the fixed defensive positions of the Moroccan army, the first thing the officer does is to protect the troops by building armored shelters, based on reinforced concrete, reinforced with thick iron sheets in a way that prevents them from being penetrated, and also based on the strength of the weapon used, which is known to the leaders of the Moroccan army,” he said.
The former officer continued: “In addition to the Sahrawi army’s bombs, the officers bear their share of responsibility for the killing and wounding of these “poor devils,” as Aissou described them, because the Moroccan army’s budget allows it to fulfill what it must do, but part of it is diverted by the officers to enrich themselves at the expense of the health and lives of thousands of soldiers entrenched along a sand wall 2,700 km long.”
According to Abdel-Ilah Aissou, the combat situation is likely to worsen on the front, especially since the Sahrawi fighters have recently begun using small drones to conduct reconnaissance operations of Moroccan positions.
He further points out here that as a result, the death toll could rise significantly, because drones will enable more precise targeting and targeting of targets, as the shells will fall directly on the heads of Moroccan soldiers, unlike before the use of this type of weapon.
The former officer, who resides in the Spanish capital Madrid, revealed the condition of Moroccan soldiers on the front, saying that they lack the most basic necessities of life such as water, while refrigerators, water heating and cooling devices, and other regular supplies remain limited to a single lucky category of the Moroccan army, which consists of senior officers only, which is something that the soldiers’ families must realize, the speaker says.
For nearly four years, the Moroccan regime has been denying the existence of fighting on the front with the Sahrawi army, in an attempt to delude world and Moroccan public opinion that there is no fighting, so as not to bear responsibility for the collapse of the ceasefire resolution issued by the United Nations on April 29, 1991, which was linked to holding a referendum on self-determination, which the Alawite regime in Rabat withdrew from.