Several thousand people demonstrated in Morocco's capital on Sunday to show support for Palestinians in war-torn Gaza and to call for an end to the country's normalisation of ties with Israel.

Under pouring rain, demonstrators marched through the streets of Rabat in response to a call from the National Action Group for Palestine, a coalition of several political organisations, including the Islamist Justice and Development Party (PJD).

"The Moroccans are with Gaza," said the principal of a private school in Rabat who spoke to AFP on condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions from the government. 

"They want to show they have no connection with normalisation."

Morocco established official ties with Israel in 2020 as part of the US-led Abraham Accords.

The North African kingdom has officially called for "the immediate, complete and permanent halt to the Israeli war on Gaza," but has not publicly discussed reversing normalisation.

The latest protest followed another large rally held a week earlier, part of a spate of demonstrations across the country since the Israeli army resumed its offensive on 18 March against the Islamist group Hamas after a two-month truce in Gaza.

Ahmed Ouihmane, 65, president of the Moroccan Observatory Against Normalisation, said Moroccans want to "denounce the complicity of the hypocritical West in the massacres" in Gaza, "and remind the normalisers that they too are complicit."