Rabat – Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance, Abdellatif Hammouchi, has been on a working visit to the United Kingdom since Tuesday, examining with several British officials ways of promoting bilateral cooperation in various security fields.
According to a statement by the cluster of the Directorate General of National Security and Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance, this involves cooperation in areas, including the fight against terrorism and cross-border organized crime.
During his two-day working visit, the Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance also held working sessions with Director General of the Security Service (MI5) Ken Mccallum, as well as with several British officials specializing in the fight against terrorism. During these meetings, the two sides discussed and exchanged views on issues of common interest, while reviewing regional and international security challenges.
Hammouchi also paid an official visit to the headquart
ers of London’s New Scotland Yard police force, and met with Mark Rowley, Chief Commissioner of the London police force, and Matt Jukes, head of counter-terrorism policing, the statement added.
On this occasion, a memorandum of understanding on the implementation of bilateral cooperation mechanisms in the fields of security in general and counter-terrorism in particular was also signed.
During the visit, the Director General of National Security and Territorial Surveillance and his accompanying delegation inquired about various British police structures and facilities, including the Security Operations Command and Management Centre in London.
The visit testifies to the depth of cooperation and coordination between the security services of the Kingdom of Morocco and their counterparts in the United Kingdom, and confirms the desire of both parties to strengthen security cooperation and consolidate intelligence coordination in the fight against threats to the security of both countries, concluded the statemen
t.
Source: Agency Morocaine De Presse
GAZA: Dozens of innocent Palestinian civilians, including children, were killed or injured this evening in a series of Israeli aerial or artillery attacks targeting various areas of the war-torn Gaza Strip, according to local and medical sources.
In the city of Deir el-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, approximately nine Palestinians were killed and several others wounded following the Israeli bombardment of homes belonging to the Khattab and Al-Attar families.
Simultaneously, at least one person was killed and dozens were injured, some critically, when Israeli occupation forces opened machine gunfire on civilians awaiting for aid trucks near the Al-Nabulsi and Al-Kuwait roundabouts in the west and south of Gaza City. The victims were subsequently transported to the Al-Shifa Medical Complex.
Meantime, at least one civilian was killed and three others injured as a result of the Israeli military’s bombardment of a home belonging to the Al-Attaout family in Jabalia, north of the Gaza Strip.
In Khan Yunis, so
uthern Gaza, an Israeli bombardment targeting a house owned by the Abu Rezq family near the European Gaza Hospital resulted in five injuries.
The ongoing Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip has so far resulted in 30,717 fatalities, most of whom are children and women, with 72,156 documented injuries, according to the Ministry of Health.
This toll remains provisional as thousands of victims are feared dead under rubble or left in the streets, with Israeli forces hindering access for ambulance and civil defense crews.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA