Showing posts with label Morocco. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Morocco. Show all posts

Amid Israel's 'genocide on Gaza', will Morocco revoke normalisation with Tel Aviv...once again?


"Do you support normalisation with Israel?" asked the masked protestor riding the van and leading the crowd's chant.
Thousands answered back, "No". 

17 October, 2023. Posted by  Balkan Periscope - Hellas

 

In 2000, after over six years of normalisation, Rabat broke ties with Israel over the second Intifada. Last week, the Moroccan people held a symbolic referendum where they voted "NO" for normalisation. Will Rabat listen, once again, to the street?

Race to find survivors as Morocco quake deaths top 1,300

 


Residents stay out at a square following an earthquake in Marrakesh on September 9, 2023.


Sept 9, 2023. Posted by  Balkan Periscope - Hellas

 

Authorities declared three days of national mourning, but the Red Cross warned that it could take years to repair the damage.

The 6.8-magnitude quake struck late Friday in a mountainous area 72 kilometres (45 miles) southwest of the tourist city of Marrakesh, the US Geological Survey reported.

In historic first, Moroccan senate president to visit Israeli Knesset


 Sept 04,2023. Posted by  Balkan Periscope - Hellas

 

The president of the Moroccan House of Councillors – the country's senate – will arrive this week for a historic state visit to Israel.