Algeria will allocate financial aid of 30 million dollars to help rebuild the Palestinian city of Jenin. The announcement, made on Friday, comes after the major Israeli military operation. Meanwhile, Morocco, Israel’s new ally, is keeping a low profile. Nevertheless…
Algiers denounces a “barbaric and criminal attack”
The large-scale military operation, launched in the city of Jenin and its camp, remains a difficult pill to swallow in Algeria. The Israeli military assault launched on Monday, which lasted about 48 hours, caused the death of 13 Palestinians. In addition, at least 120 wounded are to be deplored on the Palestinian side. Of these, 20 are in critical condition. Under the pretext of hunting down armed men, the Israeli army destroyed several facilities in the camp.
Unable to remain insensitive to this chaos, Algiers promised substantial support to the grieving Palestinian people. “The President of the Republic, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, has decided to grant a financial contribution of 30 million dollars to help rebuild the Palestinian city of Jenin, following the barbaric and criminal attack carried out by the occupying forces Zionists against the city of Jenin and its camp in the West Bank,” said a statement from the Algerian authorities.
“Algeria expresses its permanent solidarity”
“The attack caused many casualties among Palestinians and caused the destruction of infrastructure. While others were forced to leave their homes to safer places,” recalls Algiers. Not without specifying that “Algeria expresses its permanent solidarity with the struggle of the Palestinian people, under Zionist occupation, and the claim of its legitimate national rights, in the forefront of which is the establishment of its independent State, with Al-Quds as its capital”.
A gesture that did not go unnoticed on the side of Palestine. Indeed, the Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas Abbas, expressed his “gratitude to President Tebboune, to his government and to the brotherly people for the political and economic support that Algeria continues to provide”. Meanwhile, Morocco is taking it easy. However, the Moroccan king, Mohammed VI, is the chairman of the Al-Quds committee, responsible for watching over the Muslim holy sites in the city of Jerusalem. A virulent reaction was then expected.
Morocco limits itself to condemnations
Reacting to this attack, Nasser Bourita said that “Morocco condemns once again by opposing the repetitive Israeli aggressions against Jenin which have caused death and destruction”. “What is happening today, with the repeated Israeli attacks on the Palestinian territories, does not contribute to creating an adequate climate to open dialogue and create peace in this region”, continued the head of diplomacy. Moroccan.
For Nasser Bourita, “there is only one solution on which there is unanimity of the international community, namely the solution of two States, that of a State of Israel alongside which an independent Palestinian State must live, built on its 1967 borders with Al Quds Charkia as its capital”. The Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs also notes that the Palestinian cause “constitutes a fundamental axis because there will be no peace in the Middle East without a just and definitive solution to the Palestinian cause”.
When Donald Trump made Morocco bend
Condemnations that some observers describe as “soft”. The reason ? Since the normalization of its relations with Israel, Morocco has watered down its position with regard to the Jewish state. An offer made at the time by former US President Donald Trump had made Morocco bend. This is the recognition of the Moroccanness of the Sahara by Washington, in return for the normalization of relations between Morocco and Israel. And since then, Rabat has avoided angering its new partner, Tel Aviv.
Moreover, the last press release condemning the Israeli action was not signed by King Mohammed VI. Still less by the Ministry of the Royal Household and the Chancellery. Nasser Bourita having taken upon himself the commitment to issue a press release signed by his department, the Moroccan Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and Moroccans residing abroad.
