Polisario confirms that the fight continues in the desert

The Polisario Front confirmed today (Saturday) that the fighting will continue, after the military operation carried out by Morocco, yesterday (Friday), to secure the border crossing in the Guerguerat buffer zone towards Mauritania.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the “Sahrawi Arab Republic”, which the Polisario declared established in Algeria since 1976, Mohamed Salem Ould Salek, told the French Press Agency: “The fight continues after the withdrawal of the Moroccan forces from Guerguerat” , without giving details. He added that the ceasefire agreement, in force since 1991 under the auspices of the United Nations, “has become a thing of the past.”
Polisario President Ibrahim Ghali announced on Saturday that he had issued a decree declaring “the end of the commitment to the ceasefire” and “the resumption of hostilities in defense of the legitimate rights of our people.”
The announcement comes a day after Moroccan forces carried out an operation to “establish a seat belt” at the border crossing of the Guerguerat buffer zone on the border with Mauritania, according to a statement from the General Command of the Royal Armed Forces last night (Friday).
The Polisario Defense Ministry said in a statement late Friday that its forces carried out “intense attacks” on Moroccan army sites in Al Mahbas, Hawza, Awsard and Al Farisiyah, causing loss of life and equipment. The French Press Agency could not verify the authenticity of this news from independent sources.
An informed source told the agency in Rabat that this information was “incorrect,” indicating that there had been no news of clashes, either from the General Command of the Royal Armed Forces or from the peacekeeping force of the Mission of the United Nations for the Sahara Referendum (MINURSO).
Morocco did not announce any clashes with Polisario fighters, either in Guerguerat or at other military sites along the wall that has separated its forces from Polisario fighters since the late 1980s.
The communiqué of the General Command of the Moroccan Army only indicated that its members were shot and responded to during their intervention in Guerguerat on Friday “without any casualties.”