Makhzen Regime Continues Blatant Collusion With the Zionist Entity

The Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Morocco strongly condemned on Sunday the Moroccan regime’s continued blatant collusion with the sionist entity, disregarding the public’s and its active forces’ rejection of normalisation with the criminal entity.

The BDS movement stated in a press release that new information confirms that the Moroccan government continues to allow ships carrying military equipment destined for the sionist occupation to pass through Moroccan ports, particularly the port of Tangier.

The movement explained that “since November 2023, Moroccan authorities have been systematically facilitating the transfer of military equipment to the occupying entity, blatantly disregarding all international conventions and their historical and moral obligations, and ignoring the outcry from the Moroccan public, which rejects all forms of normalisation with war crimes and genocide.”

The Moroccan movement stated that the vessel Nora Maersk, part of the “genocide flotilla” belonging to the Danish Maersk, entered the port of Tangier on December 9 to load a shipment previously loaded by the Chicago Maersk. This shipment consisted of two containers filled with boxes intended for transporting F-35 fighter jet parts. The movement indicated that the Nora Maersk, with this cargo, would then proceed to the port of Haifa in occupied Palestine, from where the parts would be transferred to a sionist aerospace company.

Meanwhile, the movement stressed that what is happening constitutes “a blatant service to the machinery of extermination against the Palestinian people,” whose number of martyrs, according to the latest figures from the Zionist aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, has reached 71,412, martyrs with 171,314 wounded, as announced by medical sources.

The movement asserted that the Moroccan regime’s continued allowance of these shipments, given the suffering of the Palestinian people and the growing international calls for a military embargo on the Israeli occupation, coupled with increasing pressure to hold accountable all those who enable its crimes, whether directly or indirectly, would place Morocco “in the circle of direct complicity in supporting the machinery of genocide.”

The BDS movement reiterated its demand that Moroccan authorities prevent the docking of ships belonging to the Danish company Maersk, which is implicated in transporting military equipment to the sionist occupation army. This demand aligns with the popular will rejecting normalisation and with Morocco’s international obligations.

It is worth noting that this movement had previously affirmed, in a prior statement, that “the continued flow of military equipment to the occupying army through infrastructure under the responsibility of the Moroccan authorities, primarily the port of Tangier, cannot be considered a mere technical or logistical matter, but rather constitutes actual complicity.”

The Moroccan state was held legally and morally responsible, under international humanitarian law, particularly the Geneva Conventions and the Arms Trade Treaty, demanding that the ships of genocide be refused entry to the Kingdom’s ports, in line with the position of the Moroccan people who reject normalization, in respect for national sovereignty, and in fulfillment of its legal and historical responsibility in the face of genocidal crimes.