Why Does Morocco Hide The Ongoing War In Western Sahara?

• An official and unofficial Moroccan media alert has been issued to respond to a report broadcast on Algerian public television, documenting the ongoing battles between the Saharawi army and the Moroccan army in the contact areas in the occupied Saharawi territories, in the aftermath of the Guerguerat incident, which caused the collapse of the ceasefire.

• Algerian TV, and based on a communiqué issued by the Saharawi army broadcast last Saturday, a report showing pictures of the military operations carried out by Saharawi liberation fighters in this region against the Moroccan army positions on the 44th day of the collapse of the ceasefire between the two parties at issue.

• And from what was stated in this documentary, “the victorious Saharawi People’s Liberation Army units continued to launch new attacks, through which they targeted the burrows of the Moroccan occupation soldiers entrenched in separate locations along the “wall of humiliation and shame”, according to the military report No. 44, issued by the Saharawi Ministry of National Defense”.

• According to the same report, “Moroccan enemy positions” in the Rus al-Chishmiyya area were targeted as well as in the Mahbas, Smara, Hawza, al-Farisiya and al-Bugari sectors, and this led to completely destroying the enemy’s radar.

• This report did not pass without causing alarm in the western neighbor. The Makhzen hastened to recruit its media arms, trying to deny the existence of any military confrontations between the two warring parties, since the Makhzen army attacked the Saharawi activists who were demonstrating at the demilitarized crossing, which is supposedly under the supervision of the UN peacekeepers stationed in the area.

• The response was not through private media platforms as usual, but this time it came through the first channel of Moroccan public television, which denied the existence of any clashes between the Moroccan army and the Saharawi liberation army while verbally attacking its Algerian counterpart, just as it happened at the beginning of the Guerguerat crisis.

Quickly and without hesitation, the Moroccan newspapers and digital platforms disseminated the report of the Moroccan Channel One, through which it attacked the Algerian media, and started to refute the existence of any clashes between the Sahrawi liberation army and the Moroccan army troops, in a scene that appears as if the occupied Saharawi lands have become quiet, condemned to remain in the sway of the occupier and doomed to the status quo.

• But why does the Makhzen regime insist on dealing with every piece of information or news that speaks about the existence of clashes and bombings in the occupied Saharawi lands?

• The Moroccan authorities are striving to reassure the world public opinion that the Guerguerat incident, in which the Moroccan army was involved, leading to the collapse of the ceasefire resolution drawn up by the United Nations, did not lead to the outbreak of war, which is what Rabat feared, lest it would be reversed on it in the eyes of the world public opinion and then at the UN body.

The Makhzen hastened from the beginning to assert that the tweet of the outgoing US President, Donald Trump, in which the latter acknowledged the alleged sovereignty of the Makhzen regime over the Western Sahara, following the blameworthy normalization of ties by Rabat with the Zionist entity, will in fact change nothing in the situation, according to the statement made to this effect by UN Chief Antonio Guterres who stressed that the Western Sahara problem remains a pure decolonization issue which should be resolved through the holding of a self-determination referendum to test the will of the Saharawi people in keeping with relevant UN resolutions and international legality.