More than 1,000 people protest in the Moroccan port city of Tangier against the planned docking of a ship said to be carrying fighter jet parts to Israel.
Dockworkers and organizations supporting Palestinians in Gaza say in separate statements that the Maersk vessel is transporting spare parts for F-35 warplanes from the United States to Israel, and was due to dock in Tangier today.
A crowd of around 1,500 people chant, “The people want the ship banned,” and “No genocidal weapons in Moroccan waters” as they march down a road alongside the Tangier Med container port, according to AFP correspondents at the scene.
The protesters in Tangier also call for the severing of diplomatic relations between Morocco and Israel, which were normalized in 2020 as part of the US-led Abraham Accords.
The North African kingdom has officially called for “the immediate, complete and permanent halt to the Israeli war on Gaza,” but has not publicly discussed reversing normalization.
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