RABAT: Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Morocco’s capital on Sunday against the Zionist entity’s attack on Gaza, which it resumed in mid-March after a two-month ceasefire. The largest pro-Palestinian protest in the capital Rabat for several months was called by the Justice and Development party. Protesters were accompanied by chanting and the beating of drums as they marched down the city’s Mohammed V Avenue near parliament.

They waved flags including one bearing the image of slain Hamas spiritual leader Sheikh Ahmad Yassin and another of Moroccan Galatasaray player Hakim Ziyech, who has continuously criticized his home country’s maintenance of ties with the Zionist entity amid the war on Gaza. Children carried white shrouds stained in red to symbolize the thousands of young victims killed in the Palestinian territory during a year and a half of war.

The entity’s military resumed its offensive in Gaza on March 18, and since then, more than 1,330 people have been killed in the territory, according to territory’s health ministry. The overall death toll since the war erupted now stands at 50,695, the ministry says.

On Sunday, demonstrators chanted slogans including “The people want the liberation of Palestine!”, called the Zionist entity’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a criminal, and demanded an end to the siege of Gaza and for aid to be allowed in. There were also calls for Morocco’s relations with the Zionist entity, re-established in 2020 under the US-brokered Abraham Accords, to be scrapped, with protesters calling such ties “treason”. Rabat has officially called for an immediate and lasting cessation of the war in Gaza, without mention to the country’s ties with the Zionist entity. — Agencies