イスラエルとの国交正常化合意の破棄を　モロッコで大規模デモ

【カサブランカＡＦＰ＝時事】モロッコの商都カサブランカで５日夜、イスラエルとの国交正常化とパレスチナ自治区ガザ地区での「虐殺」に抗議するデモが行われ、大勢が参加した。（写真は、モロッコの商都カサブランカで行われた親パレスチナデモ）
　参加者は、「国交正常化はでっち上げだ！」「占領はやめろ！」とシュプレヒコールを上げた。
　モロッコは２０２０年、米国が仲介した「アブラハム合意」に基づき、アラブ首長国連邦（ＵＡＥ）やバーレーンと共にイスラエルとの国交を正常化。合意の一環として、係争地西サハラに対するモロッコの主権を米国に承認された。
　しかし、昨年１０月７日にイスラエルとイスラム組織ハマスの戦闘が始まって以来、モロッコではイスラエルとの国交正常化の撤回を求める大規模デモが起きている。
　デモの主催者はＡＦＰに対し、「イスラエルがパレスチナ人に対して行っている野蛮な虐殺、ガザでの破壊、そしてアラブ諸国の沈黙に『ノー』を突き付けるために来た」と語った。
　デモに参加した弁護士は、「アラブ諸国とイスラエルの国交正常化は、イスラエルによる民間人殺害を認めているのと同じだ」と訴えた。
　モロッコ政府は、イスラエルがハマスとの戦いで「明らかに国際法の規定に違反している」と公式に非難しているが、イスラエルと断交する意向は一切示していない。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/04/08-17:09）

Thousands of people protested in Morocco's commercial capital Casablanca late on Friday against massacres in the Gaza Strip and against the country's normalisation of ties with Israel.
The protest -- the latest large-scale rally of its kind in Morocco -- was called by the banned but tolerated Islamist group Al Adl Wal Ihssane.
The group also organised similar gatherings in the capital Rabat and the port of Tangier.
The demonstrations were held to mark the last Friday in the holy fasting month of Ramadan, and Quds (Jerusalem) Day when annual rallies in support of the Palestinans are held around the region.
Normalisation is a hoax! and Down with the occupation!, protesters chanted in Casablanca, with the war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas about to enter its seventh month.
In late 2020, Morocco established diplomatic ties with Israel under the United States-brokered Abraham Accords which saw similar moves by the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain.
As part of the deal, Rabat received Washington's recognition of its claim to sovereignty over the disputed territory of Western Sahara.
Since the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza began on October 7, large-scale demonstrations in the North African kingdom have called for the abrogation of the normalisation deal.
We came to say 'no' to the barbaric massacres Israel is committing against Palestinians, to the destruction in Gaza... and to the silence of the Arab states, protest organiser Mohammed Riahi told AFP.
Casablanca lawyer Mohammed Ennouini, 51, said: Normalising ties between Arab states and Israel gives it the green light to keep killing civilians.
Rabat has officially denounced what it said were flagrant violations of the provisions of international law by Israel in its war against Hamas, but has not given any indication that normalisation with Israel would be undone.
According to the health ministry in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip, at least 33,091 people have been killed in the territory during the war.
It began after Hamas's October 7 attack which left 1,170 people, mostly civilians, dead in southern Israel, according to an AFP tally of Israeli official figures.