GAZA (Dispatches) – Hamas has strongly condemned Morocco’s signing of a “security, intelligence, and military cooperation deal” with the Zionist regime, underlining its implications for the Arab world.
“The announcement of compromise between Morocco and the occupying regime amounts to a new defeat for the brittle [regional] Arab establishment,” the Palestinian resistance movement said in a statement.
Morocco and the Zionist regime signed the agreement on Wednesday during a ceremony attended by Zionist war minister Benny Gantz and Moroccan Defense Minister Abdellatif Loudiyi in Rabat.
Morocco normalized its ties with the occupying regime under a United States-brokered deal last year following in the footsteps of the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Sudan.
“The move by the regime that rules Morocco towards normalizing its relations with the Israeli regime is tantamount to betrayal of the Islamic and Arab principles and backing down in the face of the issue of Palestine,” the Hamas’ statement said.
The resistance movement noted that the Zionist regime would take advantage of the instances of compromise towards intensifying its adversarial policies against the Palestinian nation.
All other Palestinian groups have similarly lambasted the normalization spree, calling it a stab in the back of the Palestinian cause of liberation from Zionist occupation and aggression.
The International Union of Muslim Scholars (IUMS) also said any normalization of ties with the Zionist regime is religiously forbidden, and that the move by some Arab governments to make peace with the occupying regime amounts to a “betrayal” of the Palestinian nation’s rights.
The IUMS reiterated its permanent support for Palestine, the Israeli-occupied city of Al-Quds, and the sacred Al-Aqsa Mosque compound, condemning any normalization with the occupying regime.
The union said it had “previously issued several statements in condemnation of normalization with the occupiers of Palestine, Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Palestinian lands, and organized several conferences and seminars to emphasize the religious ban on normalization of relations with Israel.”
It called on all concerned parties to make concerted efforts to liberate all Israeli-occupied lands, especially the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound and the city of Al-Quds.