How Morocco's Gaza deployment is reshaping its ties with Israel

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Rabat frames joining stabilisation force as humanitarian mission, but activists decry move as 'complicity in post-war occupation' Moroccans celebrate the UN Security Council's backing of Morocco's autonomy plan for Western Sahara in Rabat, 31 October 2025 (Abdel Majid Bziouat/AFP) Off In July, Morocco became the first Arab and African nation to deploy its military to the International Stabilisation Force (ISF) in Palestine under Donald Trump’s "peace plan" for Gaza, bolstered by his equally dubi