Moroccans protest ship carrying arms to 'Israel' at Tangier port
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Moroccans protested the passage of ships carrying armaments to the Israeli entity in front of the Tanger Med Port, 45 kilometers away from Tangiers.
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Moroccans protest the docking of a Maersk cargo ship carrying airplane parts they suspect are headed to Israel, outside Tangier Med Port, Sunday, April 20, 2025 (AP)
Moroccans staged a march on Sunday in front of a Port in Morocco to protest the passage of ships transporting weapons to the Israeli occupation entity.
The popular march set off in front of the Tanger Med Port in Morocco, in response to a call by the National Action Group for Palestine, protesting the transit of ships carrying arms destined for the Israeli occupying forces.
Around 1,500 people demonstrated along a road adjacent to the Tanger Med container port, chanting slogans such as “The people want the ship to leave” and “No weapons of genocide in Moroccan waters,” while calling for an end to normalization between Morocco and “Israel”.
سفينة إسرائيلية وصلت للرسو في ميناء طنجة في المغرب، فاجتمعت جماهير مغربية هائلة لتمنع رسوها في ميناء بلادهم معترضين على استمرار التعاون مع الاحتلال الذي يرتكب المجازر بحق أطفال غزة وهتفوا "الشعب يريد رحيل السفينة".. pic.twitter.com/Aww8jKblKE
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The protesters held a large banner that read, “Stop shipping weapons to the Zionist terror entity, stop the genocide against the Palestinian people, normalization is complicity in the crime."
According to pro-Palestine organizations and Moroccan port workers’ unions, a ship operated by Danish shipping giant Maersk, reportedly carrying F-35 fighter jet parts and sailing from the United States to “Israel,” had been scheduled to dock at the Port of Casablanca in western Morocco on April 18, before making a stop on Sunday at the Port of Tangier in the north.
The Danish shipping company had claimed last month that it follows a strict policy of not transporting weapons or ammunition to areas experiencing active conflict, stating that it has never shipped arms or munitions under any contract with the US government.
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