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AWSA condemns Morocco’s violation of ceasefire in Western Sahara

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Australia, 17 November 2020 (SPS) - The Australia Western Sahara Association has strongly condemned Morocco’s “flagrant” violation of the terms of the ceasefire in Western Sahara, expressing solidarity with the Saharawi People.
“AWSA condemns the use of the Morocco military to clear unarmed Saharawi civilians who had been demonstrating peacefully in Guerguerat in south-western Western Sahara since late October” said AWSA Secretary, Lesley Osborne.

MAP agency cancels dispatch on Sahrawi army shootings against Moroccan forces in El Guerguerat

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Rabat (Morocco), 16 November 2020 (SPS) - The Moroccan press agency (MAP) canceled a dispatch published on Sunday confirming the shooting of the Sahrawi People's Army of Liberation (APLS) against places of entrenchment of the Moroccan occupation soldiers in El Guerguerat.
The dispatch of the MAP said that the Sahrawi forces carried out "shootings” along the Moroccan sand wall against the Royal Armed Forces (FAR) since November 13, "without causing human or material damage.”

Algerian Red Crescent delivers 60 tonnes of humanitarian aid to Western Sahara people

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Shaheed El-Hafed (Sahrawi Refugee Camps), 16 November 2020 (SPS)- The Algerian Red Crescent delivered Monday afternoon to the Sahrawi Red Crescent, in the Sahrawi refugee camp of Chahid El-Hafedh, 60 tonnes of humanitarian aid as part of the Algerian people's permanent and continued solidarity with Western Sahara people.

Counterattack of Sahrawi people, army comes in response to Morocco’s expansionist policy

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New York, 16 November 2020 (SPS) - Representative of the Polisario Front to the United Nations Sidi Mohamed Omar affirmed that the counterattack of the Sahrawi people and their army comes in response to the expansionist policy of Morocco which attempts today, after 40 years of illegal occupation of Western Sahara, to monopolize more territories on the ground that there is a trade route.

El-Guerguerat: US organization condemns Morocco's aggression, calls for self-determination

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Vermont (United States), 16 November 2020 (SPS) - US organization Grace Initiative Global has described Morocco's military aggression in the demilitarized zone of El-Guerguerat as a grave violation of the ceasefire, urging the international community to "renew its efforts" in order to "find a lasting and just solution" to the conflict in Western Sahara that ensures Western Sahara people's right to self-determination."

CONASADH warns against possible escalation of Moroccan attacks and violations of civilians’ humanitarian rights in Western Sahara

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Shaheed Al-Hafed, 16 November 2020 (SPS) - The Saharawi National Human Rights Commission (CONASADH) has warned against possible escalation of Moroccan attacks and violations of civilians’ humanitarian rights in Western Sahara.
In a letter addressed by its president, Abba Elhaisan, to President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), Peter Maurer, CONASADH called for immediately undertaking of the necessary measures to protect the Saharawi civilians under Moroccan occupation.
Below is the full text of the letter:

Several organizations condemn Moroccan military aggression in El-Guerguerat

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Algiers, 16 November 2020 (SPS) - Several international organizations and associations strongly condemned Saturday the Moroccan military aggression against Sahrawi civilians in the area of El-Guerguerat, calling to immediately stop hostilities and organize, as soon as possible, a self-determination referendum.

Morocco still use force against civilians in occupied territories

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Algiers, 16 November 2020 (SPS) - Sahrawi Minister of Occupied Territories and Communities, Mohamed El Ouali Akik said Sunday that the Moroccan occupation forces continue their "aggressive campaigns" using excessive force against Sahrawi civilians in occupied cities to silence the voice of resistance, while imposing a media blockade to conceal the reality of the situation.

Military Communiqué No. 3: Sahrawi People's Liberation Army carries on attacks on Moroccan enemy's trenches along its military wall

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ْBir Lahlou (Liberated Territories) 15 November 2020 (SPS) - For the third consecutive day, the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army fighters continued their intensive attacks and shells on the trenches of the Moroccan occupation soldiers, last night and today, along the berm, despite the enemy's air sorties and the responses of its cannons.
According to the Military Communiqué No. 3 of the Ministry of National Defense, intensive attacks of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army targeted the following Moroccan military positions:

SADR calls on UN, AU to act on Morocco's "brutal" assault

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Bir Lehlu, 15 November 2020 (SPS) - The Polisario Front and the the Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) launch an "urgent" appeal to the United Nations and the African Union to support the Sahrawi people in their struggle against Morocco's "brutal" assault and its violations of the cease-fire, the Sahrawi Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

UN has "failed in its obligations" towards Sahrawi people

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Algiers, 15 November 2020 (SPS) - The United Nations has "failed in its obligations" towards the Sahrawi people, said Thursday evening Saharawi activist, Aminatou Haidar, amid tensions in El Guerguarat in south-western Western Sahara, where Morocco launched Friday a military aggression against peaceful Sahrawi demonstrators.

Cease-fire in El Guerguerat: Morocco distorts facts to cover its violations

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Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories), 15 November 2020 (SPS) - Sahrawi Foreign Ministry accused on Friday Morocco of distortion of facts to cover its violations of cease-fire in El Guerguerat, south-western Western Sahara. 
"The language and positions used by the Moroccan occupier are all based on untruth and falsification," said the Sahrawi Ministry in a statement, recalling that "Morocco acts and communicates as if Western Sahara is part of its national territory, while this is a clear lie and a well-known frame-up to the international community."

Sahrawi People's Liberation Army carries out attacks on Moroccan enemy bases

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Shaheed Al-Hafed, 14 November 2020 (SPS) - Attacks of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army units continue against various hiding places of the Moroccan enemy along its positions in the occupied parts of the Sahrawi territory, causing loss of lives and equipments and disrupting its military plans.

Several Moroccan enemy sites are under attacks by our brave SPLA´s fighters along the Moroccan Wall of Shame (The Ministry of National Defense)

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Bir Lahlou (Liberated Territories) Nov 13, 2020 (SPS) - The political organization of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army reaffirmed in a statement this evening that several enemy sites have been attacked by our brave fighters along the Moroccan wall of shame, in response to the Moroccan coward and desperate adventure in a clear violation of the ceasefire agreement signed between the two parties to the conflict – Frente POLISARIO and the Kingdom of Morocco in the Guerguerat area.

Algeria deeply deplores “serious violations” of ceasefire in El Guerguerat

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Algeria, Nov 13, 2020 (SPS) - - Algeria has “deeply” deplored the “serious violations” of the ceasefire Friday in El Guerguerat in the south-west of Western Sahara, calling for the “immediate cessation” of these military operations, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a statement according to the Algerian News Agency.