A representation of more than 100,000 residents of the capital once again took center stage at the Anti-Imperialist Tribune — Cuba’s response to the world in solidarity with Palestine and in condemnation of the ongoing genocide against its population.
The event in Havana included the participation of Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, and was replicated throughout the island in other demonstrations reaffirming Cuba’s support for this cause.
Also joining the Cubans’ outcry were members of the Political Bureau, representatives of the Communist Party, the Union of Young Communists (UJC), student, social, and mass organizations, part of the diplomatic corps accredited in Cuba, and Palestinian students studying in the Caribbean nation.
Two years after the most recent escalation of the conflict in the Middle East, at a time when 15 Palestinians are dying every day from starvation — 12 of them children — the demand for a ceasefire and the immediate entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, without pressure or blackmail, are some of the reasons calling for solidarity with this people suffering from Zionist aggression, with the complicity of US imperialism.
Through a video, representatives of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which was intercepted by Israeli occupation forces in international waters while attempting to bring humanitarian aid to the enclave, stated that they suffered firsthand the consequences for the sole crime of bringing solidarity to this people.
In this way, he reaffirmed the will of this group to persist in the struggle to break the criminal siege of the Zionist State and for the end of the blockade imposed by the United States government on Cuba.
Yaliel Cobo Calvo, second secretary of the UJC, emphasized that from this perspective, Palestine is not a name on the map, but a bastion of resistance and dignity.
He also insisted on the need to halt the escalating crime, which has cost the lives of more than 67,000 Palestinians, with bombs falling every second, which do not discriminate between children, the elderly, or women.
Cobo Calvo also condemned the destabilizing attempts of the US government, which maintains a military deployment in Caribbean waters, clearly threatening the sovereignty of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela and regional security.
From the same platforms, we will continue to denounce apartheid, the barbarity, and the dispossession of the Palestinian people. Cuba, so often besieged by imperialist aggression, cannot conceive of any other response to the resistance of other peoples around the world against these forces, she added.
Norma Goicochea Estenoz, president of the Cuban Association of the United Nations, denounced the extinction of entire families due to systematic and indiscriminate murder and the inhumane deprivation of the most basic rights, such as food.
“It is time to end impunity, demand that the Security Council exercise its responsibilities, halt the disproportionate aggression, and impose broad sanctions on the Zionist State,” she urged.
The issue moves and mobilizes the world, as was evident in the speeches of several heads of state and high-ranking representatives at the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly.
Cuba maintains its position in favor of a comprehensive, just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, based on the creation of two states, allowing the Palestinian people to exercise their right to self-determination and to have an independent and sovereign state within the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
[SOURCE: PRENSA LATINA and AGENCIA CUBANA DE NOTICIAS ]
