Tens of thousands of Moroccans took to the streets of the capital Rabat on Sunday, protesting against Israel’s war on Gaza and calling for the reversal of the kingdom’s normalisation deal with Israel.

Protesters gathered in the city centre, holding Palestinian flags and placards calling for an end to the Israeli blockade on Gaza.

“It’s a disgrace, Gaza is under fire”, “Lift the blockade”, “Morocco, Palestine, one people” and “no to normalisation”, the demonstrators chanted.

“Palestinians are being starved and killed before the eyes of the whole world,” Jamal Behar, one of the demonstrators in Rabat, told AFP.

“It is our duty to denounce this dramatic, unbearable situation.”

Morocco and Israel in 2020 signed a US-brokered normalisation deal, which has increasingly come under attack in the kingdom as Israel’s war on Gaza enters into its 22nd month.