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Gaza: “We have a very old tradition of support for the Palestinian people,” assures the Moroccan ambassador to France
Gaza: “We have a very old tradition of support for the Palestinian people”, assures the Moroccan ambassador to France
(FRANCEINFO)
Faced with the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, the international community is mobilizing to help the Palestinians. To talk about it, Samira Sitaïl, Moroccan ambassador to France, is the guest of 19/20 info.
A first humanitarian cargo ship from Cyprus arrived in Gaza on Friday March 15. Many countries, including Morocco, are mobilizing to help the Palestinian enclave. 40 tonnes of aid were notably sent by Morocco by land. This is the first country to do so, underlines Samira Sitaïl, Moroccan ambassador to France. “It is a real breakthrough on a humanitarian level, it is also an unprecedented route which was able to be taken thanks to the relations we maintain with the State of Israel”she explains.
How Morocco reconciles its relations between Israel and Palestine
“We have a very long tradition of support for the Palestinian people“, assures the Moroccan ambassador to France. According to her, the normalization of the relationship between Morocco and Israel does not call into question”the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to benefit from a state“, she says. Samira Sitaïl specifies that Morocco is a conciliatory force between the State of Israel and Palestine.
