Moroccan Activists Protest Alleged Weapons Shipment to Israel via Tanger Med Port

In a statement, the Moroccan Initiative for Support and Solidarity with Palestine in Tangier, grouping members of the Movement of Unity and Reform (MUR) and its political arm, the Party of Justice and Development (PJD), calls on the competent authorities, particularly those in charge of the port of Tanger Med, to provide "the necessary official clarifications" regarding this information. It warns against the passage of this ship or any other ship carrying weapons, which it claims are destined for the "militias of the criminal regime". It assures that this eventuality will push it to launch a call for massive mobilization to express a categorical rejection of what it considers an act of normalization equivalent to complicity in the genocide crimes committed by the Israeli army.

A source within the management of the port of Tanger Med, who requested anonymity, reminded Hespress that the port is "a platform for international trade transit, through which millions of containers from all over the world pass each year". The containers that call there are part of "transshipment operations", and they can be routed to several ports before reaching their final destination, specified the same source. She stressed that "the owners of the ships as well as the operators of the terminals are the only ones authorized to define the maritime calls, with the possibility of modifying them at any time according to their logistical needs".

The port authority of Tanger Med "is not aware of the content of the containers being loaded in the ports of origin, nor of those transiting through the port as part of temporary calls," assured the same source. A way for Tanger Med to decline any responsibility.