Algeria described this new provocation as targeting its diplomacy as "poor staging of a mediocre play"
The tension rises between Algeria and Morocco because of a diplomatic incident. Moroccan authorities accused the Algerian Director General of Foreign Minister to have hit a Moroccan diplomat who has been hospitalized. Algerian authorities denied the fact and said that Morocco invented the fact because of the situation in the Sahara region. Algerians said that this is a new provocation from the Moroccan government, provocation to whom Algerian authorities are used to. The ambassador of Morocco has been summoned by Algerian Foreign Minister, and the government said that this provocations are unacceptable. Foreign Minister said that the incident has been brought to the UN Secretary-General.