Morocco Denies Sending Official Delegation to Israel Amid Normalization Talks

The ministry issued a press release sent to i24NEWS to deny the information from some Israeli media reporting that an official Moroccan delegation was arriving on Sunday in the Hebrew state as part of the steps to normalize diplomatic relations between the two countries. It specified that it was only a logistics team without diplomatic authority.

Walla was the first Israeli media to announce that an official Moroccan delegation was being sent to Israel on Sunday. A visit that would follow that of the American-Israeli delegation to Morocco on Tuesday, December 22, 2020.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had stated earlier this week that Israel and Morocco would discuss diplomatic relations between the two countries in the coming days, in order to launch direct flights between the two countries and establish embassies.

On Friday, the senior Israeli official declared that he had had "a very warm and exciting conversation" with King Mohammed VI, and invited him to Israel.