Five Members of Polisario Front Killed in Moroccan Raid

A view of Algerian and Moroccan flags along the closed border with Morocco, in the town of Marsa Ben M'Hid, Algeria, Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. (AP)
A view of Algerian and Moroccan flags along the closed border with Morocco, in the town of Marsa Ben M'Hid, Algeria, Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. (AP)
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Five Members of Polisario Front Killed in Moroccan Raid

A view of Algerian and Moroccan flags along the closed border with Morocco, in the town of Marsa Ben M'Hid, Algeria, Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. (AP)
A view of Algerian and Moroccan flags along the closed border with Morocco, in the town of Marsa Ben M'Hid, Algeria, Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. (AP)

The Polisario Front announced Friday the death of one of its most prominent leaders, along with four of his comrades, in the Mahbas area near Tindouf in eastern Morocco.

The head of the sixth military region, Abba Ali Hamudi, a member of the Polisario national secretariat, was killed along with four other fighters on September 1, announced the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic”, which proclaimed unilaterally by the Polisario Front in 1976.

The statement did not mention the details of the incident, but AFP reported that they were attacked by a Moroccan drone.

This comes at a time when the Sahara buffer zone is occasionally witnessing attacks by armed groups from the Polisario against the Moroccan Armed Forces in a violation of a 1991 ceasefire.

Morocco didn’t deny or confirm targeting an armed group in the buffer zone in Western Sahara.

The Sahrawi presidency declared three days of national mourning beginning on Saturday.

Hamudi was elected a member of the national secretariat during the sixteenth conference of the Front and joined the army in 1975, assuming leadership tasks.

He rose through the ranks to command the Sixth Military Region.

The Front added that Hamudi participated in several military operations and was wounded several times, noting that he underwent multiple military trainings in Syria, Libya, and Algeria.



Israel Army Chief Says Will Use 'All Tools' to Find West Bank Attackers

Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli army Eyal Zamir attends the official state opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day in Israel, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, 23 April 2025. EPA/ABIR SULTAN
Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli army Eyal Zamir attends the official state opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day in Israel, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, 23 April 2025. EPA/ABIR SULTAN
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Israel Army Chief Says Will Use 'All Tools' to Find West Bank Attackers

Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli army Eyal Zamir attends the official state opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day in Israel, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, 23 April 2025. EPA/ABIR SULTAN
Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli army Eyal Zamir attends the official state opening ceremony of Holocaust Martyrs' and Heroes' Remembrance Day in Israel, at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, 23 April 2025. EPA/ABIR SULTAN

Israel's military will use "all the tools" at its disposal to find the perpetrators of a West Bank attack that left a pregnant Israeli woman dead, army chief Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir said Thursday.

"We will use all the tools at our disposal and reach the murderers in order to hold them accountable," Zamir said as he visited the scene of the attack on the woman's vehicle in the north of the occupied West Bank.

"After struggling to save the life of the woman who was critically injured in the shooting attack in Samaria and arrived during resuscitation, the medical teams were forced to pronounce her dead," Beilinson Hospital said in a statement, using the biblical name to refer to the West Bank.

It added that the baby was delivered via caesarean section and transferred to another hospital.