El Houssine El Yamani, secretary general of the National Petroleum and Gas Union, a member of the Democratic Confederation of Labor, warns of the inflation threatening fuel consumers due to the rise in prices caused by Iran’s strikes on Israel.
Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune made new revelations about the dismantling of the espionage and intelligence network and the arrest in Tlemcen of four Moroccans and three Algerians who allegedly tried to undermine state security. They would have acted on behalf of Israel.
Morocco seems to have frozen its military cooperation with Israel due to the war in Gaza. The kingdom, which has diversified its suppliers of military equipment in recent years, could turn more towards Turkey.
Many Moroccans find themselves stuck in Lebanon where the conflict between Israel and the Lebanese Hezbollah is intensifying and are unable to buy plane tickets that have become too expensive to return to Morocco. Fearing for their lives, they are calling on King Mohammed VI and the Moroccan embassy in Beirut.
The United Kingdom has placed several countries including Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Israel, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia on the list of destinations that its nationals should avoid due to the risk of escalation of the conflict between the Hebrew state and the Lebanese Hezbollah.
Algeria has reintroduced the visa for "all foreigners holding a Moroccan passport" on the grounds that Morocco deploys "Zionist intelligence agents [...] to freely access the national territory" and carry out "various actions undermining the stability of Algeria and its national security". Justifications deemed absurd by an expert in international relations.
Rabat has not yet reacted to Algiers’ "immediate restoration" of a visa regime for "all foreigners holding a Moroccan passport." Algeria accuses Morocco of taking advantage of the visa exemption regime to deploy "Zionist intelligence agents [...] and freely access the national territory" to carry out "various harmful actions" to its "stability."
Last year, Morocco acquired from the Israeli company Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) the spy satellite Ofek 13. This acquisition seems to be causing concerns in Spain.
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 trade embargo imposed by Turkey on Tel Aviv due to the continuation of the war in the Gaza Strip is causing serious disruptions in the Israeli automotive sector. Faced with this situation, Israel has turned to Morocco to import vehicles produced on its territory.
The boycott campaigns launched in several Arab countries like Morocco, Egypt and Jordan in response to the Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip have significant consequences for the American coffee chain Starbucks managed by the Kuwaiti group Alshaya.
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.