On December 22, 2020, Israel and Morocco officially normalized relations after former President Donald Trump’s administration declared occupied Western Sahara as Moroccan. In the years following, Israeli companies have boosted their business involvement in Western Sahara, suggesting the pair’s cooperation is fueling each other’s land theft.
A powerful earthquake struck Morocco’s High Atlas mountains late on Friday, killing at least 296 people, destroying buildings and sending residents of major cities rushing from their homes.
At least 820 people have been killed and 672 injured in Morocco after one of the most powerful earthquakes to ever strike the country on Friday night leaving a trail of destruction and sorrow in its wake.
The death toll from Morocco’s deadliest quake in more than six decades has risen to 2,000. late on Friday, a powerful earthquake measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale shook the African country.
Rescuers raced against time on Monday to find survivors in the rubble more than 48 hours after Morocco’s deadliest earthquake in over six decades, with nearly 2,500 killed in a disaster that devastated villages in the High Atlas Mountains.
Almost 3,000 people are reported to have died in the earthquake that hit Morocco on Friday, but the death toll continues to rise as search and rescue teams comb through mountains of rubble.
In recent years, some Arab countries in the region believed that without addressing a solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict, peace would be brought to the region.