Sep. 18 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Ghali, has accused the Government of Israel of acting to undermine “the legitimate rights” of the Saharawi population and the security and stability “in the entire region” as a result of its ties with Morocco.
Ghali has pointed to Israel and “other known parties” as being responsible for acts that “include the intensification of the flow of drugs from Morocco to support and incite organized crime and terrorist groups,” according to the Saharawi news agency SPS.
Thus, he stressed that Morocco is reaching “suspicious alliances” to promote “conspiracies to sow discord and attack the legitimacy and representativeness of the Polisario Front and the place of the Saharawi State in Africa and in the world.”
The agreement between Israel and Morocco to normalize relations came in December 2020, after the Israeli government signed a similar pact with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain, within the framework of the ‘Abraham Agreements’ – to which which also joined Sudan–, mediated by the then US president, Donald Trump.
The former Spanish colony of Western Sahara was occupied by Morocco in 1975 despite the resistance of the Polisario Front, with whom it remained at war until 1991, when both parties signed a ceasefire with a view to holding a self-determination referendum, but Differences over the preparation of the census and the inclusion or not of Moroccan settlers have so far prevented its convening.
On November 14, 2020, the Polisario Front declared the ceasefire with Morocco broken in response to a Moroccan military action against Saharawi activists in Guerguerat, in the agreed demilitarized zone, which meant for the Saharawis a violation of the conditions of the ceasefire.
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