Abdelilah Benkirane, Secretary-General of the Moroccan opposition Justice and Development Party, held the US administration responsible for the Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip on Saturday.

This came in a speech at the party conference, which is being held on Saturday and Sunday in the city of Bouznika (west), to choose a new leadership.

Benkirane said: "The United States bears full and direct material and moral responsibility, as it is directly intervening on the ground in the ongoing war of extermination in Gaza and insisting on the displacement plan."

He criticized Washington's "immoral" use of the veto against Security Council resolutions related to the Palestinian issue.

Benkirane praised "the positions of the Moroccan people, who have demonstrated, as usual, their unwavering and steadfast commitment to supporting the Palestinian cause."

He stressed that "since the beginning of the genocidal war waged by the Zionist enemy against the Palestinians in Gaza, the Moroccan people have not stopped organizing solidarity events and national marches in support of the Palestinian resistance, condemning the occupation and its barbaric massacres, and demanding an end to normalization."

Benkirane explained that his party "stands with the Palestinian resistance."

He pointed out that "this alignment is imposed by the rights of religion, brotherhood, and humanity, and the inalienable and unshakable Palestinian right to liberate the land and establish an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital."

The conference participants are expected to choose a new leadership for the party to manage its affairs for the next four years.

On October 30, 2021, the extraordinary congress of the Justice and Development Party elected Benkirane, former Prime Minister (2011-2017), as the party's Secretary-General for a four-year term.

With full American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, leaving more than 168,000 Palestinians dead and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 11,000 missing.