Moroccan Forces Reportedly Kill Two Polisario Militants in Western Sahara Clash

According to sources close to the Polisario, two Polisario militiamen were killed by Moroccan soldiers on Monday, December 13, 2021, reports a media close to the separatists, without however providing details on the circumstances or the identity of the militiamen.

Last November, a Polisario commando was killed by a Moroccan drone strike in the Sahara. In April, a drone strike launched by the Moroccan army had killed Addah Al-Bendir, head of the Polisario gendarmerie in the Rouss Irni area, in Tifariti. On the unofficial Facebook page of the FAR, it was written that "several leading elements" of the Polisario, including the head of the gendarmerie, were killed after an operation by the Moroccan army.

Since November 2020, hostilities between Morocco and the Polisario have resumed with a vengeance. The Polisario militiamen had blocked the El Guerguerat buffer zone for weeks, thus disrupting the fluidity of traffic between the kingdom and Mauritania. Faced with these actions, the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) had, on the orders of King Mohammed VI, carried out a military operation to liberate the passage. Subsequently, they had erected a defensive wall to secure the Guerguerat border crossing, which has been extended by 50 kilometers to Touizgui.