Morocco and Israeli-Palestinian negotiations

Recently, king Mohammed VI of Morocco asserted that, after normalising relations with Israel, the kingdom is ready to use its special ties with all parties involved in Israeli-Palestinian conflict, in order to favour the resumption of peace process.

Morocco resumed its diplomatic relations with Israel last year, within "Abraham accords" promoted by United States for normalising relations between Israel and Arab countries. Protests against normalisation were scheduled in many Moroccan cities, but Rabat authorities cancelled them and arrested instigators.

In his recent statement, on the occasion of the international day for solidarity with Palestinian people, Moroccan monarch declared that the kingdom deploys "intensive and effective efforts for restarting negotiations between the two parties, in order to find a favourable solution to the Palestinian question within the pattern of two states, the 1967 borders and international resolutions".

These declarations occurred days after signing of a memorandum for security cooperation between Morocco and Israel, which would facilitate to Rabat the acquisition of arms and military technology.

In the aftermath of this, Fatah organisation - led by Mahmoud Abbas, president of Palestinian National Authority - has described the Moroccan-Israeli security accords as "a dagger coup" against Jerusalem and Palestinian issue.