Iran Press/ Africa: According to Iran Press reporter on the ground, the demonstrators, while carrying Palestinian flags, stressed the freedom of the Palestinian land from the Zionist occupation and condemned the crimes committed by the Zionist regime in Gaza.
AFP called the demonstration the biggest one in the North African kingdom since it normalized ties with Israel in 2020.
Crowds stretching for two kilometres (more than a mile) marched through the capital Rabat in the mass rally called by an alliance of Islamist parties and a left-wing coalition.
"The people will liberate Palestine," demonstrators chanted while others waved huge Palestinian flags, donned keffiyehs and voiced "unconditional support for resistance to the occupation".
"We apologise to the people of Gaza because we can't do more than protest," said university professor Sheherazade Bekkari, 50, who had travelled more than 200 kilometres from Fez with her children to join the protest.
"Down with Zionism", read some placards, while others declared that "Hamas is Palestine".
Israel's new war was sparked when the Islamist group Hamas, which rules Gaza, attacked southern Israel on October 7 and killed at least 1,400 people.
Israel has launched an intense reprisal, pounding the Gaza Strip with air strikes and killing more than 2,450 people.
Some protesters in Morocco stamped on Israeli and American flags, denouncing Washington's support for Israel.
Other placards denounced "terrorism regardless of its perpetrators".
The protest, which was punctuated by prayers against "tyranny and oppression", was the largest in Morocco since it normalized relations with Israel in December 2020 in a US-sponsored deal.
"The people want to abolish normalization" some protesters chanted, as well as the slogan "against occupation, against normalization".
Until now, Morocco's anti-normalization movement had been able only to mobilize, at most, a few hundred people.
The treaty with Israel has been of great importance to Rabat because it came in exchange for Washington recognizing Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara.
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