Morocco Divided: Jewish Ceremony Sparks Controversy Over Gaza Prayers

The information is reported by the Israeli site "Kikar Hashabat" which specifies that this great religious celebration saw the recitation of prayers and supplications in favor of the Israeli army in the war in Gaza, as well as pleas for the return of all Israelis detained in Gaza. Rabbi David Hanania Pinto, grandson of the "Jewish saint", high-ranking Moroccan government officials, representatives of King Mohammed VI, and the director of the Israeli liaison office in Rabat, Yossi Ben David, took part in this ceremony, according to the same source.

The event triggered a wave of reactions. "No one disputes the right of Moroccan Jews to celebrate in accordance with the teachings of their religion, in complete freedom, and within the framework of what the Constitution imposes on the State in terms of guaranteeing the right of each individual to practice his religious affairs," said the former Minister of Justice, Mustapha Ramid, in a post on his official Facebook account.

He will add: "But if some of them organized a religious ceremony in Essaouira, punctuated by prayers for the army of genocide, and everything one can imagine as inhuman crimes, without respect for the feelings of those present among the representatives of national institutions, and even less for the feelings of all Moroccans, this is a serious fault, a blatant challenge, and a dangerous drift that the authorities must be wary of so that it does not happen again..."

For Ramid, "there is nothing that justifies transforming a religious practice - which is a guaranteed right - in any way whatsoever, into an apology for the terrorism of a rogue, criminal state whose leaders are being prosecuted worldwide on the basis of arrest warrants issued by international criminal justice."