Rabat- Moroccan Hassania Kriran has not missed solidarity activities with Gaza in Rabat since the start of the Israeli aggression on Gaza last October.
At the popular march in Rabat, today, Sunday, she was present with her children, chanting slogans alongside thousands of Moroccans and professional bodies who responded to the Moroccan Front’s call to support Palestine and oppose normalization.
Every Wednesday and Friday evening, Hosnia leaves quickly from her workplace in one of the government departments, takes her children, and goes to the square opposite Parliament to be on time.
Education to struggle
Lift up Hosnia Slogans and demands throughout the two-month Israeli aggression on Gaza, and she was keen to have her two children by her side.
She told Tel Aviv Tribune Net, “I grew up in a family that considered the Palestinian issue fundamental, and when the events occurred, I did not feel that my involvement in solidarity activities was anything new,” explaining the importance of solidarity vigils in educating people and calling on them to reconsider their relationship with the Palestinian issue.
For this thirty-year-old woman, what she does every week is a moral obligation and duty towards the Palestinians.
She added, “Just as I am committed to going to work and fulfilling my obligations towards my family, my attendance at solidarity vigils has become part of my weekly program and one of my obligations in life.”
Hosnia’s 9-year-old daughter participated for the first time in a children’s vigil in Rabat, and since then her questions about what is happening in Palestine have not stopped, and attending solidarity vigils has become her demand.
During the gatherings, the little girl, Lynn, insists on her mother to come early. She carries the Palestinian flag and wears the keffiyeh, and many times she carries the microphone and raises slogans, while the adults repeat behind her.
Hosnia says, “What I was raised on, I pass on to my children. My daughter goes out with me to the vigils because she has become aware of the right of the Palestinians to live in their homeland in peace and security. She is now thinking of doing other things greater than participating in the vigils.”
Mothers’ hearts
On another side of the popular march in Rabat, Somaya Umm Abdullah carries a shroud of a Palestinian infant while her face and hands are covered in the color of blood. Next to her stands her son carrying the same shroud. She moves a little in the march and then stops for a moment to check on her son, covering his head to protect him from the winter sun, and at another moment She gives him water to drink.
This woman came with her son from the city of Salé, adjacent to Rabat, to participate in the popular march. She seemed like all mothers who know the meaning of the pain of loss.
She tells Tel Aviv Tribune Net that images of mothers, pregnant women, children and infants who were killed in cold blood haunt her dreams, so she no longer finds the meaning of life.
She decided to embody that image in the popular march in Rabat and in all solidarity stops to convey her message to all Moroccans and to the world that what is happening in Gaza cannot be tolerated by the hearts of mothers and is not permissible for innocent women and children.
Amina is sad about the killing of journalists
The attendance of children and adolescents at the Rabat march was remarkable, and through the expressions they expressed, they seemed more aware of what was happening in Palestine. They were haunted by questions about the reason for what was happening and how no one could stop the daily massacres and massacres. The violent war made them see the world from a different perspective.
The child, Amina Amimi, comes from the city of Souk Arbaa Gharb (100 kilometers from Rabat). She came with her parents today to participate in the popular march, as on other previous occasions.
For this child, watching news channels made her gain awareness of what was happening in Palestine and in the world.
The most prominent thing that caught her attention was the killing of journalists, so she decided that this would be her message to draw attention to targeting those who convey news and truth to the world.
She and her friend carry a coffin containing a helmet and the protective vest that journalists wear in war, and she tells Tel Aviv Tribune Net, “In this coffin lies the body of a journalist who was killed by the occupation because she was conveying the truth to us, and with her death, we will not know much of what is happening.”
She talks to Tel Aviv Tribune Net as if she has crossed the stage of maturity even though she is only ten years old and says, “I follow the news daily. What is happening is painful and killing journalists is a crime that must be stopped.”
Abu Ubaida in the streets of Rabat
The character of Abu Ubaida was the most prominent person present in the Rabat Popular March. The children wore the keffiyeh in his style and carried his pictures and words, after he became a popular hero in their minds. They followed him on the news and, like the adults, waited for the latest resistance operations on his lips.
Three brothers, no more than eleven years old, stop in front of the Parliament building. Their father tells Tel Aviv Tribune Net that they came from the city of Mohammedia (60 kilometers from Rabat) in solidarity and preferred to wear the Palestinian keffiyeh, as Abu Ubaida wears.
The eldest said that they follow him on the news and are constantly keen to hear his speeches.
Not far from them, a young man carries a picture of Abu Ubaida printed on a banner, and next to it is written his famous sentence, “Watch for more of your soldiers returning in black bags.” The young man has become a destination for his peers. They stop him at every moment asking to take a picture with the banner – the message. He smiles at everyone and agrees, stepping aside before moving on. He takes it back and continues on the road.
A popular movement that does not subside
Since the aggression on Gaza on October 7, Morocco has witnessed a popular movement in support of the Palestinian people on an almost daily basis, and Wednesday and Friday have become fixed dates for protests in front of the Parliament building, not to mention the national marches hosted by the cities of Rabat, Casablanca, and Tangier, in which hundreds of thousands coming from Various sides.
Al-Hanjar did not tire of demanding an end to the aggression against Gaza, the entry of aid, and a halt to normalization, in addition to distributing leaflets calling for a boycott of international brands that showed their support for Israel in its aggression against Gaza.
Friday – since October 15 – has become a fixed date for intense protests near mosques and in squares and streets in all cities.
According to Tel Aviv Tribune Net’s monitoring of the activities of the Moroccan Authority for Supporting the Nation’s Issues, which is part of the civil fabric organizing solidarity activities, it organized about a thousand events in various cities, not to mention hundreds more organized by civil bodies such as the Moroccan Front to Support Palestine, the Anti-Normalization Front, the National Action Group for Palestine, and others. Organizations.
Citizens are keen to create various forms of solidarity to draw attention to what is happening, to express their anger and extreme dissatisfaction with the global silence, and to search for new paths of protest other than vigils and marches.
In this regard, opponents of the war on Gaza in Morocco launched a popular petition demanding the closure of the Israeli liaison office and the severing of all relations with Israel, a step aimed at making this demand gain an official and legal dimension and not just slogans raised in vigils and marches.
The Rabat march and other marches witnessed a turnout by citizens, who lined up to register their names among the two sites.
The right to submit petitions to public authorities is considered one of the basic rights granted by the Constitution to Moroccan citizens.
According to Moroccan law, a petition is a written request that includes demands or proposals directed by male and female citizens to the public authorities to take appropriate measures regarding the request. The petition must include at least 5,000 signatures with the identity of the signatories and their national ID numbers attached.