Moroccan court rejects call to ban Israel minster's visit

Miri Regev, an Israeli Minister of Culture and Sport at Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv on 3 March 2020, in Tel Aviv, Israel [Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images]

A court in Morocco yesterday rejected an urgent legal request to ban Israel’s Transport minister Miri Regev from entering the country.

Moroccan lawyers filed the lawsuit in an effort to stop Regev from taking part in the Global Ministerial Conference on Road Safety in Marrakech, citing her alleged involvement in war crimes against Palestinians.”The court has refused to take responsibility”, Khaled Soufiani, a lawyer and vocal anti-normalisation activist with Israel, told the New Arab.

Protests were held outside of parliament to decry the decision with demonstrators calling out the government’s “betrayal” of the Palestinians.

A right-wing politician and former brigadier-general in the Israeli occupation army, Regev has previously called for a return to ‘targeted assassinations’ of Palestinian resistance leaders.

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