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Together with Palestine: Always!

March for the freedom of Palestine and against genocide, from the Fragua Martiana to the José Martí Anti-imperialist Tribune Photo: Jose M. Correa

Since October 7, 2023, the beginning of one of the cruelest genocides that humanity remembers and will remember, Israel’s massacre against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, Cuba has made clear its position, not only of condemnation of the crime, or of perennial denunciation of the violation of the rights of innocent civilians, but also of recognition of the Palestinian State.
Deep bonds of friendship unite us with this people, brave and defending their land to the last consequences -like us-. Cuba has loudly expressed its condemnation of the harsh reality that the Palestinians have been facing for decades, erased from their own map, as Israel and the U.S. now want to do, after a long genocide: to remove them forever from their lands.
This feeling of solidarity has mobilized millions of Cubans, who from squares, schools, workplaces, social networks and even with the use of the traditional Palestinian kufiya, have become part of a struggle that has added hearts.
Our side is the side of justice, the side of truth, the side that gives voice to the thousands of children, women, young people, the elderly, and parents, silenced under the roar of bombs made in the U.S., in front of unarmed and defenseless people.
It is no coincidence that Cuba then occupies the Vice-Presidency of the Committee for the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People, a gesture that honors us, and that we assume with the commitment that “the unjust should not be indifferent to us”.
At the United Nations, we will continue to be a pillar in calling for a just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, including the recognition of an independent Palestinian state within the pre-1967 borders.
This was made clear yesterday by the ambassador, permanent representative of Cuba to the United Nations, Ernesto Soberón Guzmán, who also stated that we will continue to denounce the crimes committed in the West Bank and the power that obstructs aid to those who every day find it an ordeal to look for water, food or the most basic services.
Cuba was, is and will always be, together with the Palestinian people.

The United States perpetuates the crime in Gaza

Photo: Prensa Latina

I have always heard it said that problems are not solved by moaning; but, however true the phrase may be, the United States tramples on it, as it does with the UN, which is now using it, and vetoes a Security Council resolution proposal calling for a ceasefire in Gaza.
This is the third time in a row that the Biden administration has vetoed a possible solution, albeit incomplete and with fewer elements than necessary, because the Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people needs to be stopped in its tracks and the offenders punished more severely.
These are those who bomb and kill, and the financiers and suppliers of weapons to the Zionist Israeli army forces, used disproportionately with the certainty that the U.S. government will not allow any resolution of condemnation, even the very limited one calling for a cease-fire.
Yesterday, 13 members of the Security Council voted in favor of the Resolution, one abstained (United Kingdom), and there was only one vote against -that of the United States-, enough for the international community to be convinced, more and more every day, that lamentations will not solve the Palestinian issue nor put an end to the Israeli genocide.
The same happens at the International Court of Justice, where the resolutions for Israel to be brought to justice for the genocide it commits are filed away among so many documents that show a defenseless UN in the face of what is happening to a Palestinian population that Israel has set out to extinguish.
This time, as on previous occasions, the United States “justified” its veto with the words of its ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who assured that “the project will not achieve a lasting peace, but will prolong the captivity of the hostages held by Hamas”.
Rhetoric that turns into a veto. Veto turned into a crime. Punishment that does not come. Palestinian deaths that keep adding up.

Neither bombs nor permanent aggression will be enough to break hope

Photo: José Manuel Correa

The lords of war, which is the horror of the peoples, are indifferent to children, women and men; the human being. It is strange for them to become sensitive and end it in the face of so many deaths; that is why they continue to agonize what is not theirs, what is alive.
The more than seven decades of the Palestinian people resisting the onslaught of Zionist colonialism are not enough; nor are the lives taken from more than 42,000 people since October 2023. The offensive continues, and it hurts.
That is why, aware that solidarity knows no decoys or borders, and that to fight for Palestine is also to fight for humanity, a representation of the Cuban people marched through the streets of Havana, from the Martí Forge to the Anti-imperialist Tribune.
“Our solidarity and sensitivity with just causes summon us to the most anti-imperialist of the tribunes, to repudiate the massacre being committed against the people of Palestine and which is also intensifying against Lebanon, Syria and Yemen,” expressed Meyvis Estévez Echevarría, first secretary of the National Committee of the Union of Young Communists.
In view of the vile scenario experienced by the Palestinian people, she affirmed that it is not a question of figures, that they are entire families martyred, disappeared, and that every time a person from that land is murdered, the shame of the world also dies.
“This march of thousands of Cubans, and the rallies that have been held in the country during these days, honor each life taken by Israel; in addition, it reaffirms the political will and commitment of the Cuban State with peace, justice and respect for national sovereignty,” highlighted Meyvis Estévez.
The march was led by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, accompanied by members of the Political Bureau, Esteban Lazo Hernández, president of the National Assembly of People’s Power and the Council of State, and Manuel Marrero Cruz, prime minister, as well as other leaders and representatives of political and mass organizations.

Condemnation of the genocide that Israel is committing against the Palestinian people

Photo: Archivo de Granma

We ratify in the strongest terms the

Photo: Archivo de Granma

We ratify in the strongest terms the condemnation of the brutal aggression and genocide that the Occupying Power, Israel, is carrying out against the population in the Gaza Strip, through the murder of tens of thousands of innocent civilians and the destruction of hospitals, schools, mosques, among other infrastructures, in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.
We denounce the historical complicity of the United States of America by repeatedly using its right to veto to prevent the implementation of a ceasefire to stop the killing of innocent civilians.
We support the decision of the Government of Cuba to participate, as a Third State, in the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel before the International Court of Justice.
We urgently call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip to put an end to the genocide being committed against the Palestinian people, and to allow the urgent entry of aid to address the grave humanitarian crisis being suffered by the inhabitants of Gaza.
We reaffirm Cuba’s historic position for a comprehensive, just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, support for the just cause of the Palestinian people and their right to have their independent and sovereign State, with the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and that the refugees be allowed to return to their land. Likewise, that the entry of the State of Palestine as a full member of the United Nations Organization be guaranteed without further delay.

, is carrying out against the population in the Gaza Strip, through the murder of tens of thousands of innocent civilians and the destruction of hospitals, schools, mosques, among other infrastructures, in flagrant violation of international humanitarian law.
We denounce the historical complicity of the United States of America by repeatedly using its right to veto to prevent the implementation of a ceasefire to stop the killing of innocent civilians.
We support the decision of the Government of Cuba to participate, as a Third State, in the lawsuit filed by South Africa against Israel before the International Court of Justice.
We urgently call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in the Gaza Strip to put an end to the genocide being committed against the Palestinian people, and to allow the urgent entry of aid to address the grave humanitarian crisis being suffered by the inhabitants of Gaza.
We reaffirm Cuba’s historic position for a comprehensive, just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, support for the just cause of the Palestinian people and their right to have their independent and sovereign State, with the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital, and that the refugees be allowed to return to their land. Likewise, that the entry of the State of Palestine as a full member of the United Nations Organization be guaranteed without further delay.