Mustapha Baitas, government spokesman, explained the refusal of access to the head of government to academics, lawyers and political figures who came on Wednesday to submit a petition calling for an end to the normalization of relations with Israel.
As Israel intensifies its retaliation against the Palestinian Hamas movement, many Moroccans are multiplying calls to break diplomatic relations between Morocco and the Hebrew state. In Morocco, new demonstrations were organized on December 10, the day of the commemoration of the normalization of relations between the two countries.
Several thousand people demonstrated on Sunday in Rabat, waving Palestinian flags and calling on the government to break relations with Israel .
Moroccan tennis player Younes Lalami Laaroussi refused to play against Israelis Amit Vales and Lior Goldenberg, withdrawing from his quarter-final doubles match of the ITF tournament taking place in Greece.
Thousands of Moroccans again participated on Sunday in Casablanca in a "popular march" in support of Palestine in the conflict against Israel in Gaza.
In Morocco, the announcement of the presumed death of Moroccans in Gaza, the theater since October 7 of a new war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamic movement Hamas, has provoked the anger of pro-Palestinians. They reiterate their call for the cancellation of the normalization of diplomatic relations between the kingdom and the Hebrew state.
The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Morocco, which have normalized their diplomatic relations with Israel under the "Abraham Accords," are among the countries that have acquired a considerable number of Israeli weapons.
The Secretary General of the Party of Justice and Development (PJD), Abdelilah Benkirane, demanded on Thursday the severing of relations between Morocco and Israel. The leader of the Islamist party supports Palestine in the conflict in Gaza and calls for large demonstrations in support of the Palestinians on the streets of the kingdom.
Thousands of people demonstrated on Sunday in the streets of Casablanca against the normalization of relations between Morocco and Israel and to denounce the "genocide" of Israel in the Gaza Strip.
Israel has proceeded to evacuate its diplomatic personnel from Rabat on October 18, following massive demonstrations expressing solidarity with the Palestinians.
In reaction to the brutality of Israel during the second Intifada, which broke out in 2000, and the rise of Moroccan opposition, Morocco had cut ties with the Hebrew state. Will Rabat once again break its relations with Tel Aviv after the surprise and spectacular attack by the Hamas movement and the Israeli retaliation?
Several Moroccan associations and political parties have expressed their solidarity with the Palestinian people after the recent Hamas attack on Israel and the escalation of tensions that followed.