The Saharawi Army launches a "massive attack" against Moroccan troops

MADRID, 17 Jul. (EUROPA PRESS) -

The Saharawi Liberation Army launched this Saturday a "massive missile attack" against several locations where Moroccan troops were located, north and southeast of Western Sahara.

The Saharawi Army commandos have "neutralized a series of military points" belonging to Morocco, so that in the last day, "at least five Moroccan entrenchments have been reached" and "two other alert points on the wall were neutralized", has reported the EC Saharawi portal.

According to the war report issued by the Ministry of National Defense, to which the aforementioned media has had access, the units of the Saharawi Army have caused "innumerable losses of life and equipment among the ranks of the Moroccan Army."

According to reports from the Defense portfolio, in recent days Western Sahara has had an open offensive in Mahbes, in the northwest, a town occupied by Morocco and close to the border with Mauritania and Algeria.

In the Mahbes territories it is in the places where the most bombings have been registered these days. However, the Saharawi forces have launched an offensive against the Farsía region, in the north, and Guelta Zemmur, in the center.

Guelta Zemmur is a territory protected and guarded by Moroccan forces due to the wealth of resources in the area, mainly fishing and phosphates.

The Saharawi media recall that the war continues "for the twentieth consecutive month, spreading to a total of 170 areas, due to the violation of the ceasefire in November 2020, for which the conflict resumed.

The president of the self-proclaimed Saharawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) and leader of the Polisario Front, Brahim Gali, published a presidential decree two years ago in November announcing the end of the commitment to the ceasefire signed between the Polisario Front and Morocco in 1991.

The origin of the dispute was on a road built by Morocco to facilitate transit to Mauritania, although the Polisario considered that it was an illegal infrastructure under the 1991 ceasefire agreement.

The Spanish colony of the Sahara was occupied in 1975 by Morocco and Mauritania after the Tripartite Agreements, signed on November 14, 1975, which ceded the sovereignty of the Spanish Sahara to these two countries.

After a brief war, the Polisario Front expelled Mauritania and signed peace and mutual recognition with its militias at the gates of Nouakchott, but Morocco consolidated its control over the territory and thousands of Saharawis fled the savage repression.

In 1991 a ceasefire was signed between both parties, who committed themselves to holding a self-determination referendum organized by the United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara, but since then the disputes over the census for voting - -Morocco wants the Moroccan settlers to vote-- they have prevented the consultation.