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Official relations between the two countries ofPalestine and theSahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (Western Sahara) do not exist, being as neither country is fully recognised internationally. Despite this, there are informal connections.[1]
Both nations have anArab majority. The future founder ofPolisario Front,El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed, used to meet Palestinian leaders during 1970s inLebanon,[2] in which he was influenced by theIsraeli occupation. Fearing a futureMoroccan occupation ofWestern Sahara, the Polisario Front was established, in a similar format to thePFLP.[3] Theflag of Western Sahara draws from theflag of Palestine. The influence of theSahrawi independence movement draws a level of sympathy toward Sahrawis among Palestinians.[4]
George Habash, one of the founders of Palestine's PLO, met withBrahim Ghali in 1979 and indicated solidarity with the Western Saharan cause.[2] Both countries share similar styles of struggling, including conductingguerrilla warfare, against bothIsrael andMorocco.[5]
In 2016, the Palestinian Solidarity Committee with Western Sahara was banned from enteringGaza byHamas.[2]
On 10 October 2023, the Polisario Front expressed support for the Palestinian people.[6] On 15 October, Sahrawi Ambassador to Algeria,Abdelkader Taleb Omar, met with thePFLP political representative to Algeria, Nader Qaisi, at the Sahrawi Embassy in Algiers.[7] SADR was among the countries that condemnedAl-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion.[8]
Evoking the serious developments in Palestine, the Permanent Bureau of the Polisario Front reaffirmed the solidarity of the Sahrawi people with the Palestinian people.
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