Today, Monday, the Israeli occupation forces demolished a house belonging to Najeh Taimat in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron .
In the same context, the force seized a truck for transporting organic fertilizers in Al Farisiyah, belonging to Arafat Daraghmeh in the northern Jordan Valley .
Eight migrants died when their rubber boat sank in southern Morocco while trying to reach Spain´s Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean, a source from the local authorities told AFP on Monday.
The source said, "On Monday morning, the bodies of eight candidates for clandestine immigration were recovered, after the rubber boat they were traveling in ran aground on the coastal strip of the Akvnir group," in the south of the Kingdom.
And 18 survivors, "who were among the passengers of the stranded rubber boat", were arrested in the vicinity of the area where the accident occurred, according to what the source added, explaining that they were from sub-Saharan African countries.
He also referred to the opening of a judicial investigation "to reveal the circumstances and circumstances of organizing this illegal immigration process", while the bodies of the victims were deposited at the mortuary in a hospital in El-Ayoun.
Attempts to migrate irregularly across the southern coasts of Morocco and Western Sahara towards the Spanish Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean often result in drownings.
This incident comes a month after 23 migrants were killed while trying to storm a border post towards the Spanish enclave of Melilla in the north of the Kingdom, in a tragedy whose death toll is estimated by non-governmental organizations at "37 at least", in addition to dozens of wounded, including 140 in the ranks of the Moroccan security forces and about fifty in the ranks of the Moroccan security forces. Spanish police.
Recently, the Moroccan authorities announced the interception of 257 migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean and the Atlantic Ocean to Europe, on traditional boats, kayaks or even swimming, in separate operations between 9 and 12 July.
During the first five months of 2022, irregular migration by sea to Spain increased by 12 percent compared to 2021, but the recent normalization of diplomatic relations between the two kingdoms has led to a decline in numbers in recent weeks.
According to official figures, the Moroccan authorities thwarted more than 14,700 illegal immigration attempts, and dismantled 52 migrant smuggling networks, during the first quarter of this year.
In contrast, last year, more than 40,000 immigrants arrived in Spain, most of them from Morocco, according to the Spanish government.
