READ ALSO: Why did Morocco 'open the border' for migrants at Spain's Ceuta enclave? He added that "police reinforcements only arrived on Thursday at around 7:00 pm", after hundreds of migrants had already entered Ceuta in previous days. During a similar surge in 2021, more than 10,000 migrants reached Ceuta from Morocco over the course of two days during a diplomatic spat between the two countries. Another crucial issue is that Morocco does not recognise Ceuta and Spain's other north African enclave, Melilla, as Spanish territory and has claimed sovereignty over them since its independence in 1956. US, Israel in the backgroundSome analysts have even gone so far as to bring up the United States and Israel in the context of the Ceuta events.