Mohamed Ahmed Madi is head of the Palestinian Committee for Solidarity with the Sahrawi People, a group supporting solidarity with Western Sahara and close to the left-wing Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)...
Currently living in Gaza, Madi told Middle East Eye that he hoped that Morocco's overt alliance with Israel would make the Palestinian leadership be more sympathetic to the Sahrawi cause...
Palestinian and Sahrawi solidarity activism has a long history.
The PFLP was always a vocal supporter of the Polisario Front, the organisation that controls much of Western Sahara and has been engaged in a decades-long political (and sometimes armed) struggle against Morocco for Sahrawi independence.
PFLP's founder and former leader George Habash first visited the leadership of the Polisario Front in Algeria in the 1970s and declared both his support for their cause and for the overthrow of Morocco's "reactionary" monarchy.
