{"id":3809,"date":"2026-08-03T21:07:55","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:07:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=3809"},"modified":"2026-08-03T21:07:55","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T21:07:55","slug":"ceuta-leader-accuses-morocco-over-atrocity-of-mass-border-crossing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/?p=3809","title":{"rendered":"Ceuta leader accuses Morocco over \u2018atrocity\u2019 of mass border crossing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Jes\u00fas Vivas says influx seen as \u2018at least encouraged or permitted\u2019 by Rabat, as Spain demands EU solidarity<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/31\/ceuta-spain-eu-border-africa\">Explainer: why is Ceuta a migration flashpoint?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A growing chorus of voices has accused Morocco of helping to fuel the crisis in Ceuta, with the leader of the Spanish enclave describing last week\u2019s border crossings as an attack on Spain\u2019s territorial integrity that was seen as being \u201cif not orchestrated, at least encouraged or permitted by Morocco\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Spanish officials \u2060said on Monday that an estimated 69,500 people who had arrived late last week in Ceuta, a tiny Spanish territory in north Africa, had returned to Morocco in recent days. About 2,500 people who had made the crossing were believed to still be in Ceuta.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/aug\/03\/ceuta-leader-border-crossing-morocco-spain\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juan Jes\u00fas Vivas says influx seen as \u2018at least encouraged or permitted\u2019 by Rabat, as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.arabnewsmonitor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}