Morocco Chooses Israel’s Battle-Tested Elbit Systems as Main Defense Partner
Occupied Palestine (Quds News Network)- Morocco has selected Israel’s battle-tested Elbit Systems as its primary defense partner, further expanding its use of weapons tested on Palestinians, reported La Tribune. The move deepens military ties between the Morocco and the occupation state, following Morocco’s normalization with Israel under the Abraham Accords in December 2020.
Rabat now has access to Israeli drones, surveillance technology, and air defense systems—tools Israel has extensively tested on the Palestinian people across the occupied land.
Israel has built a notorious weapons industry by developing a technology of occupation in Palestine. The occupation state uses Palestinian territories as a laboratory to test its latest weapons and surveillance tools before selling them globally. Israeli manufacturers boast that their products are “battle-tested” and “proven” in combat, using Palestinian repression as a selling point for military buyers worldwide.
An Al Jazeera investigation, The Palestine Laboratory, exposed how Israel’s military technology, first used to subjugate and monitor Palestinians, is later deployed against political dissidents, human rights activists, and journalists worldwide. Israeli surveillance tools have been used to track refugees and migrants in Greece and along the US-Mexico border. The report also revealed Israel’s historic ties with South Africa’s apartheid-era government, built around a clandestine arms trade and shared ideologies of oppression and militarized control.
According to the report, Morocco has signed a contract with Elbit Systems to purchase 36 Atmos 2000 self-propelled artillery systems. The decision follows technical failures in the Caesar artillery systems that Morocco ordered from France’s KNDS in 2020. Some of these systems, delivered in 2022, were reportedly non-operational.
With this agreement, Israel has become Morocco’s third-largest weapons supplier, accounting for 11% of its total arms imports, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
