Rabat – Thousands of Moroccans poured into the streets of Casablanca’s Al-Mohammadi neighborhood in a massive show of solidarity with Palestinians against the ongoing genocide and famine perpetuated by the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF).
On Friday, the United Nations officially declared Gaza in a state of famine, the first time such a designation has been made in the Middle East.
The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), an international system tracking hunger, warned that famine is likely to extend to central and southern Gaza by the end of September.
After nearly 22 months of Israel’s genocidal campaign, over 500,000 people already face catastrophic conditions (IPC Phase 5), marked by extreme starvation, severe malnutrition, and high mortality. An additional 1.07 million people fall under Emergency conditions (IPC Phase 4), while 396,000 remain in Crisis (IPC Phase 3).
Despite these findings, Israel has dismissed the IPC’s assessment, denying the existence of widespread malnutrition, while continuing to inhumanly block humanitarian aid from reaching Gaza.
The Moroccan demonstrators denounced Israel’s deliberate policy of starvation and called for an immediate end to Israel’s genocidal campaign that started in October 2023 and is still raging on with no hope of ending any time soon.
Protesters carried Palestinian flags, wore keffiyehs, and held images of journalists killed by Israeli airstrikes alongside haunting photographs of Palestinian children reduced to nothing but skeletal figures by hunger.
Organized by the Moroccan Front in Support of Palestine and Against Israel Normalization, the march resonated with chants demanding an end to Israel’s deadly and inhuman war machine.
Participants also expressed support for Palestinian resistance and rejected any political or economic ties between Rabat and Tel Aviv.
The demonstration, not the first of its kind in Morocco, shows widespread anger over the relentless suffering in Gaza and a deep commitment among citizens to speak out against Israel’s barbaric genocidal policies.
According to the Palestinian Health Ministry, Israeli strikes across Gaza have killed at least 62,686 people and left 157,951 injured.
Hospital officials told Al-Jazeera that within the past 24 hours, 64 bodies and 278 wounded Palestinians were admitted to medical facilities across the besieged enclave.
Additionally, 19 people who were killed while attempting to access aid and 123 injured aid seekers were brought to Gaza’s health centers during the same period.
