The Polisario Front claims to have killed three soldiers and a non-commissioned officer in Moroccan territory

Moroccan Army vehicles passed a Moroccan flag, in the Guerguerat area, near the border with Mauritania, last November.

The war that the Polisario Front decreed on November 13 against the Moroccan state has turned into an informational battle without relevant images.

Neither party to the conflict allows journalists access on the ground.

The Saharawi organization has already issued 89 "war reports", to which Rabat almost always responds with silence.

The same one kept by the observers of the UN mission on the ground.

This Monday, however, the Polisario Front claimed to have killed three soldiers and a non-commissioned officer in Moroccan territory.

Rabat continued in silence or with very indirect allusions.

The head of the Moroccan Government, the Islamist of the PJD, Saadedín el Otmani, published a tweet this Wednesday in which he spoke of the "imaginary victories" of the separatist front.

The Moroccan state also responded with silence and indifference on November 14, when the Polisario Front claimed to have bombed four military bases and caused fatalities.

But this time, the Sahrawis provide more details about the alleged victims.

The Saharawi organization points out that the offensive took place in what they consider to be the full Moroccan territory, in the Ouarkziz mountains, in the Agha sector, in the south of the country.

And it specifies: "Our fighters were able to fully control the target point and destroy it completely, in addition to killing the commander of the Moroccan guard, the non-commissioned officer named Al-Naka, and the three guards, including the soldier named Zouali."

Below are the weapons, the manufacturing number of a machine gun and two Kalashnikov rifles seized from the soldiers.

They also claim to have personal and official documents of the Moroccan fighters, although they have not shown any image of the victims.

The Polisario Front maintains that with this operation it goes from harassment at a distance carried out with artillery, to a direct attack in the “enemy zone”.

The Moroccan state announced in 2007 that it would only be willing to grant an autonomous regime in the Sahara, always within the kingdom of Morocco.

And the UN, in recent years, seems to lean towards that Moroccan proposal in its resolutions, since they do not even mention the word referendum.

On October 21, the Polisario Front promoted the blockade of the Guerguerat highway, placing there some 50 civil activists who demanded a referendum on self-determination.

The Moroccan Army expelled the activists on November 13.

During the eviction operation there was an exchange of shots between the parties.

Hours later, the Polisario Front decreed a state of war and the breaking of the ceasefire signed in 1991 at the UN.

The Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR) stated that “after 29 years of waiting” it had lost its confidence in the United Nations Mission for the referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO), which it considers a “custodian” of the “exploitation ”By Morocco from the natural resources of the former Spanish colony.

The Moroccan Army took advantage of the crisis to reinforce its control over the demilitarized zone of the Guerguerat.

Since then, the Polisario Front has issued almost a daily “war report”.

In none of them has he recognized any fatal casualties among his ranks.

On January 24, he announced the launch of four missiles over the Guerguerat area.

Rabat was forced to acknowledge through the official MAP agency that there had been “uneventful harassment” by the Polisario.

And he clarified that traffic in the area was proceeding normally.

The most significant change in the position of force between the two sides did not come from the battlefield in the desert, but from the Oval Office of the White House.

On December 10, then-President Donald Trump recognized Morocco's sovereignty over Western Sahara while announcing that Israel and Morocco would establish diplomatic relations.

Both the Polisario Front and its main ally and protector, Algeria, await the reaction of the Joe Biden Administration, who has not yet given any sign that it will modify the agreement with Morocco signed by his predecessor.

Meanwhile, the UN remains without assigning an envoy for Western Sahara.

The position has been vacant since German Horst Köhler resigned in May 2019, citing health reasons.