The demonstration took place in front of the headquarters of the Court of First Instance of Casablanca
Dozens of Moroccan lawyers demonstrated on Thursday in the city of Casablanca, in western Morocco, in solidarity with the Gaza Strip and in support of the precautionary measures of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against Israel.
The Anadolu correspondent said protesters chanted slogans in favor of the ICJ’s decisions in front of the Court of First Instance building.
The ICJ ordered Israel to immediately suspend its military offensive against the town of Rafah, which began on May 6, in the far south of the Gaza Strip.
“Israel must immediately suspend its military offensive or any other action in the Rafah governorate that could inflict living conditions on the Palestinian group in Gaza that could lead to its physical destruction in whole or in part,” said Lebanese judge Nawaf Salam, President of the ICJ, reading the order relating to additional provisional measures requested by South Africa in the ongoing genocide case against Israel.
The demonstrators gathered at the call of the Casablanca Bar Association, condemned Israel’s refusal to apply international resolutions.
They expressed their rejection of the West’s unwavering support for Israel, calling on Western countries to no longer display solidarity.
Moroccan lawyers demonstrated in black robes, and protested against “the massacres and destruction committed by the Israeli entity, in full view of the international community.”
Many cities in Morocco are the scene of massive demonstrations in solidarity with the Gaza Strip.
Nearly eight months after the start of the Israeli war, large towns in Gaza are nothing but ruins, against a backdrop of a state of siege paralyzing access to food, drinking water, and medicine.
Israel is accused of “genocide” before the ICJ which decided in its latest order the immediate suspension of Israeli operations against the city of Rafah, where more than a million Palestinians who had taken refuge there to escape the war are crowded together. , before the Israeli army offensive which began on May 6.
