Sources in Morocco have described the situation in Guerguerat as “normal”.
“There was harassing fire near the area of Guerguerat, but it did not affect the trunk road, traffic was not disrupted,” they said.
Morocco launched a military operation in November in the buffer zone of Guerguerat to drive out a group of Saharawi militants who were blocking a transit route to neighboring Mauritania.
The Polisario Front launched an overnight attack on the Guerguerat area on the border between Morocco and Mauritania. “The Saharawi army launched four rockets in the direction of Guerguerat,” on the border between Morocco and Mauritania.
The sources, however, said that there had only been "harassing fire", labeled the attack claim as part of a "propaganda war", and insisted "the situation is normal".
In this context, a Moroccan source familiar with the matter told Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that this is the first time the Polisario Front relies on the propaganda through issuing fake warnings on shooting in empty spaces in the desert to give the impression that a bloody war is ongoing between the Moroccan Armed Forces and the Polisario Front.
