Regional peaceIn a press release, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stressed that Morocco “condemns attacks against civilians wherever they may be”. In Tunis, left-wing activists began gathering as soon as Hamas announced the launch of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on 7 October. Ever since it welcomed Palestinians driven out of Lebanon by the Israeli army in 1982, Tunisia has shown unwavering support for them. President Kais Saied also emphasised “the right of the Palestinians to establish the capital of their independent state in Al-Quds”. Pro-Iranian Houthi militias in Yemen echoed this, declaring their support for Hamas’s “heroic jihadist operation” which it said revealed Israel’s “weakness, fragility and impotence”.
