El Polisario anuncia el lanzamiento de 4 misiles contra la zona de Guerguerat
The Polisario Front claimed today to have attacked with missiles the Guerguerat pass, a border area in Western Sahara that separates Mauritania from the territories that the Moroccan army has occupied since 1975 in the former Spanish colony.
In a terse statement, broadcast by the official SPA news agency, it added that "the Saharawi army launched four missiles at the illegal crossing of Guerguerat and its surroundings. Two hit the Lawenia area while the others hit the northern part of the illegal breach".
"The offensive by the Saharawi army on the southern border of Western Sahara with Mauritania comes a day after offensives and harassment operations carried out by Saharawi fighters in southern Morocco", he added.
The information has not been confirmed or denied by Morocco, nor could it be verified by independent sources.
War Tension
The situation in the former Spanish colony is of high warlike tension since 13 October last, when Moroccan armed forces entered the Guerguerat pass to evict a large group of Saharawis who had camped on the runway to interrupt the transit of goods through the area, which the Polisario denounces as illegal.
Barely 24 hours after the offensive, the secretary general of the Polisario Front and president of the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR), recognised by dozens of countries, Brahim Ghali, claimed that it was a violation of the ceasefire and considered the truce signed in 1991 to have been broken.
A day later, he announced the start of military actions along the wall erected by Morocco in the middle of the desert, which, according to the Saharawis, have been repeated daily since then and which Rabat does not even comment on.
Last Thursday, SADR announced that the Saharawi army was preparing to "extend the scope of its military operations, from southern Morocco to southern Western Sahara, to cover all enemy sectors and defences".
In addition to military tension, there has been political tension in recent weeks, as a result of former US President Donald Trump's decision to recognise Moroccan sovereignty over the former Spanish colony in exchange for Rabat establishing relations with Israel.