
France-Israel match: massive boycott and empty stadium
The Nations League match between France and Israel on Thursday at the Stade de France was shunned by the public.

The Nations League match between France and Israel on Thursday at the Stade de France was shunned by the public.

Laurent Nunez, prefect of police in Paris, declared on Sunday, November 10 that Palestinian flags would be banned inside the Stade de France during the football match between France and Israel on Thursday, November 14. Only French and Israeli flags, as well as messages of support for the teams, will be allowed.

Dozens of people demonstrated on Tuesday on the "Bab Lamrissa" square in the city of Salé, in support of Palestine and against normalization with Israel, whose war and genocide crimes in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon they denounce.

Touria, a divorced woman in her forties and mother of two boys, was the victim of a financial scam by a fake online banker who managed to extort 20,000 euros from her, he said, "to support the Palestinians against Israel".

Abdallah Bouanou, president of the parliamentary group of the Party of Justice and Development (PJD), criticized the remarks of Emmanuel Macron on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, made on Tuesday before the Moroccan parliament. The French president described the Hamas attack against Israel on October 7, 2023 as "barbaric and savage", which, according to the deputy, appears as an "unjust and erroneous description of the Palestinian resistance".

After his absence from the October gathering due to injury, the controversy sparked by his support for the Palestinian cause and the inclusion of Morocco in his publications and the deletion of his Instagram photos with the Atlas Lions, will the Moroccan winger of Galatasaray Hakim Ziyech say goodbye to the Moroccan national team? Former Moroccan central defender Abdeslam Ouaddou fears for the future of the former Ajax star.

At a time when the war between Israel and Hamas continues in the Gaza Strip, a petition for Moroccan citizenship for Jewish descendants submitted this week to the Moroccan Parliament via the national citizen participation portal "Eparticipation.ma" is the subject of criticism from anti-normalization activists.

Several tens of thousands of people marched on Sunday in Rabat in support of the Palestinian and Lebanese peoples, a year after the start of the Israeli intervention. Hakim Ziyech was virtually among them.

After his latest posts in support of Palestine in the conflict in Gaza, which sparked a heated controversy, Hakim Ziyech has just posted a post in support of Lebanon, which is suffering daily bombardments from the Israeli army.

The Moroccan midfielder of Galatasaray, Hakim Ziyech, reiterates his support for Palestine and does not hesitate to openly criticize the Moroccan government for its silence on the "genocide" underway in the Gaza Strip.

Moroccan organizations have filed a lawsuit against a group of young people who visited Israel in early July, in the midst of the Israeli bombing of Gaza. This visit, organized by the Maroc Coexistence Association, sparked a heated controversy, perceived as an attempt at normalization with Israel during the escalation of the conflict.

An Israeli soldier posted videos of his vacation in Marrakech on his social networks, boasting of having killed thousands of Palestinians in Gaza. A post that sparked the outrage of many Moroccans and a group of lawyers in the ochre city who filed a complaint against this Israeli soldier for crimes against humanity.