The future founder of Polisario Front, El-Ouali Mustapha Sayed, used to meet Palestinian leaders during 1970s in Lebanon,[2] in which he was influenced by the Israeli occupation.

[4] George Habash, one of the founders of Palestine's PLO, met with Brahim Ghali in 1979 and indicated solidarity with the Western Saharan cause.

[2] Both countries share similar styles of struggling, including conducting guerrilla warfare, against both Israel and Morocco.

[5] In 2016, the Palestinian Solidarity Committee with Western Sahara was banned from entering Gaza by Hamas.

[6] On 15 October, Sahrawi Ambassador to Algeria, Abdelkader Taleb Omar, met with the PFLP political representative to Algeria, Nader Qaisi, at the Sahrawi Embassy in Algiers.