.. this time to control the choke point between the Atlantic and Mediterranean ..

Ceuta Under Siege: Migrant Wave Hits Spain as Morocco Deepens Ties With Washington and Tel Aviv

Thousands of migrants stormed the Ceuta border from Morocco this week — Spanish authorities report 1,500 to 2,000 entries over the past ten days, with several thousands more crossing overnight and Thursday alone. At least 9 people have died in the attempt. Madrid is deploying the Armed Forces to the border, with PM Pedro Sánchez traveling to Ceuta Friday alongside the interior minister.

Morocco has spent the past months cementing itself as Washington and Tel Aviv's foremost regional partner. It renamed a 1,055-km highway through occupied Western Sahara the "President Donald J. Trump Highway." It's now preparing troops for deployment to Gaza as part of the so-called International Stabilization Force — a force hand-picked by Israel, granted legal immunity by Israel's Security Cabinet, permitted to operate only where Israel approves, and requiring sign-off from Israel's own prime minister, defense minister, and foreign minister before any personnel set foot in the Strip. Rabat has also hosted hundreds of rabbis for religious pilgrimages this year, deepening the normalization track it opened via the Abraham Accords.

And now, thousands of predominantly young men are being funneled toward Spanish territory.

Why Ceuta and not Melilla? The likely calculation: Ceuta sits directly on the Strait of Gibraltar, while Melilla faces the open Mediterranean further east. If Morocco's long-term goal is pressuring Spain into ceding ground on Ceuta specifically, control there — even de facto, through demographic pressure and chaos — would hand the Anglo-Zionist axis effective command of both shores of the Strait, the chokepoint between the Mediterranean and the Atlantic. That would be a far greater strategic prize than Melilla, which offers no comparable leverage over global shipping lanes.

Spain, notably, is one of the few European governments to have taken real steps on Palestine — recognizing statehood, restricting arms transfers, and drawing repeated criticism from Washington over it. Trump has made his contempt for Madrid's government clear, needling Spain over NATO spending and floating tariff threats. A destabilized Ceuta, pressured by a Moroccan government tightly aligned with Washington and Tel Aviv, is not a coincidence sitting next to that friction — it's leverage.