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Morocco Stops 45,000 Migrants from Crossing to Europe in 2024

File photo of a police officer standing near a Moroccan national flag near the main stadium during preparations for the FIFA Club World Cup in Agadir, December 10, 2013. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
File photo of a police officer standing near a Moroccan national flag near the main stadium during preparations for the FIFA Club World Cup in Agadir, December 10, 2013. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
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Morocco Stops 45,000 Migrants from Crossing to Europe in 2024

File photo of a police officer standing near a Moroccan national flag near the main stadium during preparations for the FIFA Club World Cup in Agadir, December 10, 2013. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh
File photo of a police officer standing near a Moroccan national flag near the main stadium during preparations for the FIFA Club World Cup in Agadir, December 10, 2013. REUTERS/Amr Abdallah Dalsh

Morocco has stopped 45,015 people from illegally migrating to Europe since January and busted 177 migrant trafficking gangs, Morocco's state news agency MAP reported on Friday, citing interior ministry data.

Last year, Morocco stopped 75,184 people from illegally crossing to Europe, up 6% from a year earlier, government data showed.

The Moroccan navy has also rescued 10,859 migrants at sea so far this year, MAP said, citing the interior ministry data.

"In 2024, Morocco continues to face an increasing migratory pressure as a direct outcome of the prevailing instability in the Sahel region and porous borders," it quoted the ministry as saying.

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Lebanon: Hezbollah Strikes Israeli Military Base with Katyusha Rockets

Smoke billows from a site targeted by the Israeli military in the southern Lebanese border village of Kafr Kila on July 29, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Hezbollah. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)
Smoke billows from a site targeted by the Israeli military in the southern Lebanese border village of Kafr Kila on July 29, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Hezbollah. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)
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Lebanon: Hezbollah Strikes Israeli Military Base with Katyusha Rockets

Smoke billows from a site targeted by the Israeli military in the southern Lebanese border village of Kafr Kila on July 29, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Hezbollah. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)
Smoke billows from a site targeted by the Israeli military in the southern Lebanese border village of Kafr Kila on July 29, 2024, amid ongoing cross-border clashes between Israeli troops and Hezbollah. (Photo by Rabih DAHER / AFP)

Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group said Saturday it has bombed the Israeli Mount Niriya military base with volleys of Katyusha rockets.
In a statement, the party said the attack was in support of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, and in “retaliation to the Israeli enemy’s aggressions on the resilient (Lebanese) southern villages and safe homes”, the state-run National News Agency reported.
Hezbollah added that the base is a command center occupied by the troops of Golani Brigade- an Israeli infantry brigade.
The border areas between southern Lebanon and Israel have witnessed exchanges of fire between the Israeli army and Hezbollah, since October 8, 2023, following Israel's declaration of war on Gaza.
Hezbollah says its attacks on Israel come in support of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.