Morocco pays $22 million for suicide bombers from Israel

Press reports revealed that Morocco recently purchased unmanned aircraft from Israel, as part of the normalization agreement between the two countries.

According to the newspaper "Haaretz" Israeli, that the Israeli air industry has received $ 22 million this year in a deal with Morocco. This is based on what was mentioned in several previous foreign reports, which confirmed that Israel will sell to Morocco “Harop” unmanned munitions, known as “Kamikaze” drones.

In the same context, the weekly "Defense News" published last month, based on various sources in Morocco, that Israel intends to sell these drones to the country as part of the normalization agreement between the two countries.

And Africa Intelligence also reported last September that Israel and Morocco are planning a joint venture in Morocco to manufacture Kamikaze drones.

According to the report , "Haaretz", the "IAI Harop" plane without a pilot, an aircraft is a "suicide" is uninhabited with a length of about 2.5 meters with an estimated length of the wingspan of three meters.

This plane is used by Israel, India and Azerbaijan. It can carry about 20 kilograms of explosives, in addition to its ability to stay in the air for up to seven hours.

The Minister of Defense of the Israeli Benny Gantz has visited Morocco last week, and signed a security cooperation agreement with his Moroccan counterpart, Abdul Latif Alodaa, after a year of Morocco Declaration and Israel establish diplomatic relations formally, also include the signing of weapons between them deals and promotion.

According to the financial reports issued by the Aviation Industry Institute, which were submitted last week to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange, the aircraft division recorded revenues of about $12 million in the third quarter of 2021, while it was estimated at $10 million during the second quarter of the year.

Informed sources confirmed to Haaretz that these deals are new with Morocco. The aircraft division did not sell anything to Africa between 2019 and 2020.