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The move marks the most forceful stance yet by an organised labour institution in Morocco since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.
The move marks the most forceful stance yet by an organised labour institution in Morocco since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza.
A powerful port workers‘ union in Morocco has called for a boycott of a Maersk cargo ship allegedly transporting US military equipment to Israel, intensifying a wave of public outrage in the North African kingdom over the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
In a statement released Monday, the Union of Port Workers in Morocco, affiliated with the country’s most influential labour body, the Moroccan Labour Union (UMT), urged workers at the Port of Casablanca to refuse to unload or service the Maersk Nexoe, a Danish vessel reportedly scheduled to dock on 18 April.
“Anyone facilitating this ship’s passage is, without question, a direct accomplice in the genocidal war against the Palestinian people”, the union said in a statement. It also called on authorities to bar the ship from docking at Casablanca or at Tangier Med, Morocco’s largest port.
The call marks the most forceful stance yet by an organised labour institution in Morocco since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, and comes amid growing domestic unrest over Rabat’s continued normalisation of ties with Tel Aviv.
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