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Newsline: Moroccans Protest Israeli Ambassador’s Sex Scandal

Dozens of pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested outside Morocco’s parliament against the kingdom’s normalisation of ties with Israel after the Jewish state recalled its top envoy from Rabat amid a probe, AFP correspondents said. Around 100 people chanted slogans against the rapprochement between Morocco and Israel, criticising its ambassador David Govrin and Moroccan Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita. “Today, we are in front of the parliament to protest against the hideous acts” allegedly committed by Govrin, said Amine Abdelhamid, a pro-Palestinian activist against normalisation between Morocco and Israel. “Morocco’s dignity is not for sale, the normalisation must end,” he said. (https://www.albawaba.com/news/moroccans-protest-sex-scandal-israeli-ambassador-rabat-1490585) Protesters burned an Israeli flag at the end of the demonstration. According to Israeli media, ambassador David Govrin is facing allegations of exploiting Moroccan women, sexual harassment and indecent exposure. Rabat cut relations with Israel in 2000 following the outbreak of the second Palestinian intifada, but in 2020 Morocco followed the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain in formalising ties with Israel.

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