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Three Members of the Polisario, Including a Senior Leader, Die in a Moroccan Attack

Summary by El Confidencial
The Frente Polisario announced the death this Sunday in combat of Sahrawi leader Lahbib Mohamed Abdelaziz, son of the founder of the independence organization and member of its National Secretariat, who fell "martyr in the fight" against Morocco along with two other fighters.The Saharawi armed forces issued a statement in which they did not specify the circumstances of the deaths or detail the identity of the other two deceased people.

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Morocco has broken the successor line of the Polisario Front in a drone attack on the young military and political leader Lahbib M. Abdelaziz, the son of one of the founders of the independence organization. The disappearance of a figure who was seen as a future leader has impacted Saharawi exile in the Tindouf refugee camps in south-west Algeria, in the midst of a mediation tour of the UN envoy for Western Sahara, Staffan de Mistura. With this …

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It was reached, along with two other companions, when traveling in an off-road vehicle through the buffer zone east of the raised wall.

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The Frente Polisario announced the death this Sunday in combat of Sahrawi leader Lahbib Mohamed Abdelaziz, son of the founder of the independence organization and member of its National Secretariat, who fell "martyr in the fight" against Morocco along with two other fighters.The Saharawi armed forces issued a statement in which they did not specify the circumstances of the deaths or detail the identity of the other two deceased people.

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Lahbib Ould Mohamed Abdelaziz, son of former Frente Polisario leader Mohamed Abdelaziz and one of the most prominent emerging figures within the separatist movement, reportedly died in a Moroccan drone attack on a vehicle in the buffer zone east of the Moroccan-controlled Sahara security wall, according to media and separatist-like activists.tags: Polisario front, Sahara, Marruecos» original news (www.elespanol.com)

The deaths in the armed conflict that Saharawis and Moroccans resumed in 2020 are almost uninterrupted.But, this time, among those who have lost their lives is one of the members of the leadership of the Frente Polisario, the organization that has been standing for 50 years, on the diplomatic front but also in the military, the flag of self-determination of the former Spanish colony.And that has forced Spanish politics to look back at their own …

The Sumar Parliamentary Group, through the representative of Sumar-Compromís in Congress, Alberto Ibáñez, called on the Minister of Foreign Affairs, José Manuel Albares, to call for consultations of the Moroccan ambassador to Spain, Karima Benyaich. The Government, of which he is a member, is urged to ask for explanations for the drone attack that in the last hours has killed three militants of the Polisario Front. He expressed that there is a d…

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El Confidencial broke the news in Spain on Monday, June 8, 2026.
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