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Rabat- The Justice and Development Party (PJD) renewed call for Morocco’s government to sever all ties with Israel in response to the ongoing Israeli genocide targeting civilians across Gaza.
PJD’s Secretary General Abdelilah Benkirane renewed the party’s appeal on Sunday during a meeting with the party’s political leaders.
“The General Secretariat reaffirms its previous and steadfast positions condemning the genocide and the brutal crimes committed by the Zionist entity and its occupying army against unarmed civilians in Gaza, the West Bank, and all of Palestine,” PJD said in a statement following the meeting.
Describing Arab countries’ “silence” as a “betrayal,” the political party called on Morocco’s government to cancel all agreements with Israel and to immediately close the country’s liaison office in Rabat.
Since the launch of the Israeli genocide in Gaza on October 7 last year, PJD has been vocally reitrating its call for Morocco to sever all ties with Israel.
It also consistently denounced the violence in the besieged enclave and advocated for a strong stance against normalization with Tel Aviv.
In July, Benkirane criticized the former government, led by his party colleague Saad Eddine El Othmani, for signing the Abraham Accords in 2022.
“We understand his position. Personally, I am still waiting for him to explain to me under what circumstances he signed it,” he said.
Benkirane, who also served as a head of government, has been criticizing Morocco’s solidarity campaign with Gaza as not enough,saying that the peoples’ support is without a political impact.
“The solidarity of Moroccans with Gaza expressed through protests and sit-ins remains weak and without political impact,” he remarked.
