Aljazeera.net correspondents
Marrakech- Israeli soldier Moshe Abizar, who participated in the aggression on Gaza“A thousand calculations before returning to visit Morocco,” said civil activist Imad Al-Diouri, speaking to Al Jazeera Net, after learning that the primary court in Rabat Accepted to consider a complaint filed by a group of lawyers in the city Marrakech Against this soldier, and prosecuting him on charges classified as terrorism crimes.
The soldier, Abihar, deleted all the photos of his vacation in the Moroccan city of Marrakesh last July, “after he published them on the same account in which he boasted about killing thousands of innocent Palestinian people,” according to Al-Diouri.
The activist wondered, “How dare this terrorist publish these photos in the city of Marrakesh and enjoy his summer vacation there, after spending long months in a battalion that kills children and women and destroys homes,” as he celebrated in one of the clips by leveling an entire residential block to the ground.
Legal complaint
Lawyer and human rights activist Bushra Al-Assimi confirmed to Al Jazeera Net that the Israeli soldier’s visit to the Kingdom is a provocation to the feelings of Moroccans “who do not hesitate to show solidarity with the Palestinian people and condemn all the crimes of the Zionist occupation.”
Al-Assimi, who is the coordinator of a group of Moroccan lawyers who demanded the soldier’s trial, confirmed that the complaint was accompanied by a group of photos taken from his social media account that show his participation in the war on Gaza with the occupation army, which is involved in crimes against humanity. “It also shows video clips documenting cases of killing, burning and torture against Palestinians, all of which are terrorist acts criminalized by international law and Moroccan law.”
As Najia Al-Hadaji (one of the lawyers filing the complaint) explained in her interview with Al Jazeera Net, “The group’s resort to pursuing this criminal falls within the framework of defending Palestinian human rights and expressing solidarity with him against the aggression based on human rights, and also from the aspect that any citizen can file a complaint on the matter.”
She stressed that the complaint was carefully drafted within the framework of Moroccan law to combat terrorism crimes, and said that the lawyers hope that it “will take its natural course, to serve as a lesson to every war criminal,” especially after the Public Prosecutor refused to register the complaint in the Marrakesh court. The group decided to move to the city of Rabat to file it, and succeeded in defending its registration in the court with a special number for it to take its course.
According to lawyer Al-Hadaji, the complaint was based on Article 711-1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure, which states that “despite any legal provision to the contrary, any Moroccan or foreigner who commits a terrorist crime outside the Kingdom as a principal, contributor or participant, whether or not it aims to harm the Kingdom of Morocco or its interests, shall be prosecuted and tried before the competent Moroccan courts.”
It also relied on the law on terrorism, which defines its crimes as “attacking the lives, safety, or freedoms of persons, or kidnapping or detaining them.” Article 1-1-218 also stipulates that joining, individually or collectively, in an organized or unorganized framework, terrorist entities, organizations, gangs, or groups is considered a terrorist crime, even if the actions do not aim to harm Morocco or its interests, which is what applies to the Israeli soldier, according to the lawyer.
Al-Hadaji said that the soldier’s decision to delete his photos is evidence of the initiative’s strength and effectiveness, “as every participant in the war who decides to spend his vacation in the Kingdom of Morocco will think a thousand times before bragging about his crimes on social media.”
Popular protest and anger
Pictures of the Israeli soldier spending his vacation in Marrakesh caused a wave of anger in the city, and crowds of citizens belonging to civil society organizations rushed to demonstrate, calling for the soldier to be arrested before he left the city and held accountable for his actions.
The coordinator of the Moroccan Front to Support Palestine and Combat Normalization in Marrakesh, Youssef Abu Al-Hassan, told Al Jazeera Net that the protest was inspired by the Moroccan people’s emotional, religious and humanitarian attachment to all liberation issues, most notably the Palestinian cause, and in protest against the Zionist soldier’s publication of his photos in Marrakesh alongside photos of his crimes in Gaza, boasting and boasting. He stressed that his actions and those of his fellow criminals must be pursued.
Abu Al-Hassan called for a demonstration “in order to stop the Zionist aggression and to overthrow the normalization and the war of extermination it is practicing in Gaza, along with our allies in Marrakesh and the Coordination of Lawyers to Support Palestine, which in turn was tasked with filing a lawsuit to prosecute the soldier.”
Activist Al-Diori said that the Moroccan Observatory for Combating Normalization monitored the soldier’s movement in the red city through his account on social media and exposed his presence there, where he spent his first evening in one of the city’s nightclubs, which mobilized a number of civil society activists to organize a mass protest in front of the Koutoubia minaret.
He also appreciated the lawyers' initiative to pursue this Israeli, noting that “any attempt at penetration will be confronted through popular action, as well as legal and human rights action, based on the history of the Moroccans' relationship with the Palestinian cause, and in continuation of the path of the free people who filed lawsuits against the occupation in international courts,” adding that the Israeli soldier's concern about the prosecution represents a reflection of the “prevailing tense climate” on the Israeli side after the cases filed in International Court of Justice.
