The Polisario Front has returned to announcing military operations against positions belonging to the Moroccan Royal Armed Forces, following a military communiqué issued on Sunday, November 8, 2026, stating that its units launched an artillery attack on military positions in the Al-Aydiyat area, located within the Guelta sector in the Sahara. This move comes amid persistent discrepancies between narratives regarding the security situation along the Moroccan defensive wall.
According to the account provided by the Polisario's Ministry of Defense, units of the Sahrawi People's Liberation Army carried out a "concentrated" shelling operation on Sunday afternoon, targeting positions and concentrations of the Royal Armed Forces in the Al-Aydiyat area, a location previously mentioned in military statements issued by the Front in the past.
The Polisario claimed that the operation resulted in human and material losses within the ranks of the Moroccan army, without disclosing the number of dead or wounded, or the nature of the equipment it claims was destroyed. It also failed to provide field data capable of independent verification to substantiate the results it announced.
The Front added, according to the content of the communiqué, that its forces continue to carry out military operations targeting Moroccan army positions along the defensive wall, considering these movements part of the armed confrontation it declared resumed in November 2020, following the collapse of the ceasefire that had been in place since 1991.
This new announcement gains significance in light of the political and diplomatic developments surrounding the Sahara file, particularly with the ongoing disagreement between Morocco and the Polisario regarding the nature of a final settlement, and Rabat's insistence on the autonomy initiative under Moroccan sovereignty, in contrast to the Front's demand for a self-determination referendum.
The repeated military communiqués raise questions regarding the reality of the field situation and the scale of the announced clashes, especially since information regarding targeted sites and military outcomes usually comes from one side, without being supported by documented images or independent reports that would allow for the assessment of damages or the confirmation of casualties.
Conversely, among the sources consulted regarding the November 8 announcement, there was no official Moroccan statement confirming that the reported shelling occurred in the Al-Aydiyat area or clarifying whether the Royal Armed Forces had suffered losses in that sector.
It remains essential to distinguish between the Polisario's announcement of a military operation and the proof of its occurrence and results, as the publication of a statement by one of the parties to the conflict does not in itself constitute independent evidence of the accuracy of all the details contained therein.
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