#AL haouz

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Soutien aux Marocains

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✔TO ANYONE INTERESTED IN DONATING✔

please make sure to donate to verified accounts, my friend donated to a paypal account here in morocco just for it to turn out to be a scammer. it's better to also follow your donations and make sure they're being used for good measure. the people in the Atlas and Haouz regions are really in a dire need of your help, and how else would your help reach them if not through a verified way?

thank you for anyone who's going to sacrifice their time and money to help the victims, and rest in peace to those who passed away

Please, consider donating and helping those that were affected by the earthquake. If you are unable to donate please share and pray for our people.

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Basking por Rob

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By Sam Metz

September 11, 2023

An earthquake has sown destruction and devastation in Morocco, where death and injury counts continue to rise as rescue crews dig out people both alive and dead in villages that were reduced to rubble.

Law enforcement and aid workers — both Moroccan and international — have arrived in the region south of the city of Marrakech that was hardest hit by the magnitude-6.8 tremor on Friday night and several aftershocks.

Residents await food, water and electricity, and giant boulders now block steep mountain roads.

Here’s what you need to know:

WHAT ARE THE AREAS MOST AFFECTED?

The epicenter was high in the Atlas Mountains about 70 kilometers (44 miles) south of Marrakech in Al Haouz province.

The region is largely rural, made up of red-rock mountains, picturesque gorges and glistening streams and lakes.

For residents like Hamid Idsalah, a 72-year-old mountain guide from the Ouargane Valley, it is unclear what the future holds.

Idsalah relies on Moroccan and foreign tourists who visit the region due to its proximity to both Marrakech and Toubkal, North Africa’s tallest peak and a destination for hikers and climbers.

“I can’t reconstruct my home. I don’t know what I’ll do. Still, I’m alive so I’ll wait,” he said as rescue teams traversed the unpaved road through the valley for the first time this weekend.

The earthquake shook most of Morocco and caused injury and death in other provinces, including Marrakech, Taroudant and Chichaoua.

WHO WAS AFFECTED?

Of the 2,122 deaths reported as of Sunday evening, 1,351 were in Al Haouz, a region with a population of around 570,000, according to Morocco’s 2014 census.

People speak a combination of Arabic and Tachelhit, Morroco’s most common Indigenous language.

Villages of clay and mud brick built into mountainsides have been destroyed.

Though tourism contributes to the economy, the province is largely agrarian.

And like much of North Africa, before the earthquake, Al Haouz was reckoning with record drought that dried rivers and lakes, imperiling the largely agricultural economy and way of life.

Outside a destroyed mosque in the town of Amizmiz, Abdelkadir Smana said the disaster would compound existing struggles in the area, which had reckoned with the coronavirus pandemic in addition to the drought.

“Before and now, it’s the same,” said the 85-year-old. “There wasn’t work or much at all.”

WHO IS PROVIDING AID?

Morocco has deployed ambulances, rescue crews and soldiers to the region to help assist with emergency response efforts.

Aid groups said the government has not made a broad appeal for help and accepted only limited foreign assistance.

The Interior Ministry said it was accepting search and rescue-focused international aid from Spain, Qatar, Britain and the United Arab Emirates, bypassing offers from French President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President Joe Biden.

“We stand ready to provide any necessary assistance for the Moroccan people,” Biden said Sunday on a trip to Vietnam.

WHY IS MARRAKECH HISTORIC?

The earthquake cracked and crumbled parts of the walls that surround Marrakech’s old city, a UNESCO World Heritage site built in the 12th century.

Videos showed dust emanating from parts of the Koutoubia Mosque, one of the city’s best known historic sites.

The city is Morocco’s most widely visited destination, known for its palaces, spice markets, tanneries and Jemaa El Fna, its noisy square full of food vendors and musicians.

HOW DOES THIS COMPARE TO OTHER QUAKES?

Friday’s earthquake was Morocco’s strongest in over a century but, though such powerful tremors are rare, it isn’t the country’s deadliest.

Just over 60 years ago, the country was rocked by a magnitude-5.8 quake that killed over 12,000 people on its western coast, where the city of Agadir, southwest of Marrakech, crumbled.

That quake prompted changes in construction rules in Morocco, but many buildings, especially rural homes, are not built to withstand such tremors.

There had not been any earthquakes stronger than magnitude 6.0 within 310 miles (500 kilometers) of Friday’s tremor in at least a century, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.

Northern Morocco experiences earthquakes more often, including tremors of magnitude 6.4 in 2004 and magnitude 6.3 in 2016.

Elsewhere this year, a magnitude 7.8 temblor that shook Syria and Turkey killed more than 21,600 people.

The most devastating earthquakes in recent history have been above magnitude 7.0, including a 2015 tremor in Nepal that killed over 8,800 people and a 2008 quake that killed 87,500 in China.

WHAT ARE THE NEXT STEPS?

Emergency response efforts are likely to continue as teams traverse mountain roads to reach villages hit hardest by the earthquake.

Many communities lack food, water, electricity, and shelter.

But once aid crews and soldiers leave, the challenges facing hundreds of thousands who call the area home will likely remain.

Members of the Moroccan Parliament are scheduled to convene Monday to create a government fund for earthquake response at the request of King Mohammed VI.

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السعودية حسمت التطبيع الإيجابي مع إسرائيل زلزال الحوز المغرب في تضامن ق...

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إيقاف و طرد صحافة من إستخبارات فرنسية من زلزال الحوز و بيتاس يخرج ببيان...

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//Also on a side note, i'm fine, the earthquake had been disastrous but luckily i live a little far away from where it all happened, we still had some violent tremors reach us, i was sleeping and woke up to the whole building shaking. i was really afraid something happened to my parents (they live in a city right next to the province where the earthquake happened) but they were alright, glad this was all over. my heart goes for the families and friends of those who passed away during such an event, may they rest in peace

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820 people have been killed, and 670 injured after a 6.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Al Haouz, Ouarzazate, Marrakesh, Azilal, Chichaoua and Taroudant in Morocco.

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Powerful Magnitude 6.9 Earthquake Rocks Morocco, Dozens Feared Dead

Powerful 6.9 Magnitude Earthquake strikes Morocco! Latest figures from the Moroccan Govt put the death toll at 296 with many more injured amongst the rubble.

The earthquake was measured by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre (ESMC) at a depth of 10km/6.2mi at 11:11pm local time.

The epicenter was recorded some 77km/47.8mi from the city of Marrakesh by the village of Al-Haouz. The town suffered collapsed buildings trapping some residents.

Two aftershocks have since been measured; a 4.8 Magnitude aftershock and one with a Magnitude 3.4, complicated rescue efforts.

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UPDATE: The death toll now stands at over 1.3k with over 1.6k injured.

The Moroccan King has declared three days of mourning in remembrance of the victims.

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One of the villages affected during the Al Haouz earthquake in Morocco

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The beautiful Ourika

Ourika is a small town and rural commune in Al Haouz Province of the Marrakesh-Tensift-El Haouz region of Morocco

The Ourika valley situated at a short distance from Marrakesh 60 km. While traveling along the Ourika valley you will enjoy beautiful landscapes ...

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By Palestine Chronicle Staff

According to al-Qassam statements, its fighters carried out 40 attacks on Israeli vehicles using Yassin-105 shells.

The Al-Qassam Brigades carried out a “massacre of Israeli tanks and military vehicles” in the northern Gaza Strip after its fighters succeeded in targeting 110 Israeli vehicles during 52 days of fighting, the Al-Jazeera Arabic website reported.

“The Palestinian resistance has been waging a fierce battle against the Israeli occupation army in the northern Gaza Strip since the fifth of last October, and despite the suffocating Israeli siege and heavy shelling that does not stop day and night, and the spread of swarms of drones in the sky .. shooting at everyone who moves, the Resistance succeeded in carrying out dozens of attacks on the occupation forces,” according to a special report presented by the website.

Al-Jazeera published an infographic that is based on military communiqués released by Al-Qassam Brigades since the beginning of the Israeli military operation in the northern Gaza Strip.

The infographic showed that Al-Qassam managed to target 54 Israeli Merkava tanks, 27 personnel carriers, 26 military bulldozers (D9), and three Hummer jeeps.

According to al-Qassam statements, its fighters carried out 40 attacks on Israeli vehicles using Yassin-105 shells, 39 attacks with improvised explosive devices, and 13 attacks with Tandem shells.

These numbers only apply to Al-Qassam and don’t include other Palestinian groups including Al-Quds Brigades and PFLP, among others.

“Al-Qassam fighters pursued Israeli tanks and vehicles in the areas of Jabaliya city and refugee camp, Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanoun, Al-Tawam area, Tal al-Zaatar, Faluja, Saftawi junction, Al-Haouz Al-Turki area, Al-Qasasib neighborhood, the eastern cemetery of Gaza City, the Khaznadar area, Al-Atatra and Sheikh Radwan neighborhood,” according to the infographic.

Below are the latest statements by the two main Resistance forces in Gaza, and the Lebanese Resistance Movement Hezbollah.

The statements were communicated via their Telegram channels and are published here in their original form.

Al-Qassam Brigades (Hamas) “Al-Qassam fighters managed to detonate a booby-trapped building targeting a group of zionist soldiers, resulting in deaths and injuries east of Jabalia Camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

“Al-Qassam Brigades targets two zionist Merkava tanks with an Al-Yassin 105 shell and a highly explosive landmine east of Jabalia camp in the northern Gaza Strip.

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Al Haouz: Plus de 500 bénéficiaires d’une caravane médicale pluridisciplinaire

Al Haouz – Plus de 500 personnes ont bénéficié des services d’une caravane médicale organisée, samedi, dans la commune d’Anougual, dans la province d’Al Haouz. Initiée par “AXA Atout Cœur”, relevant d’AXA Services Maroc, en partenariat avec l’Association Action Urgente et l’Association El Baraka Angels, cette initiative a permis d’offrir des consultations médicales à plus de 500 bénéficiaires,…

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Marrakech: Collapse of a house weakened by the Al Haouz earthquake - Yabiladi in English

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