European MP Rima Hassan, known for her support of the Palestinian cause, faced attacks from accounts supporting the Polisario separatists after a post on her Instagram account. She was accused of ‘betrayal’ due to her positions on the Western Sahara issue and her refusal to compare the Palestinian cause with the Sahara conflict. Hassan explained that the Sahara was part of a sovereign state before Spanish colonization and clarified that a photo of her with people bearing the Polisario Front emblem was taken during a meeting, not a pro-Polisario activity. She emphasized the importance of negotiations between Morocco and Algeria to resolve the dispute and warned against external parties exploiting the conflict to increase tensions between the peoples.