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Cuba acusa y grita: ¡Basta!

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Foto: JORGE

Si Israel no se empecinara en seguir masacrando a la humilde, sufrida e indefensa población palestina en la Franja de Gaza, el mundo pudiera estar clamando hoy por el fin de otros (también innecesarios) conflictos; por la paz, la hermandad y la cooperación que tanto necesitan los pueblos; por una distribución más justa y equitativa de la riqueza y los recursos naturales, por la mejor preservación del medio ambiente…

Pero con más de 100 000 víctimas desde octubre, entre muertos y heridos (con brutal impacto en niños y mujeres), una población en condiciones de hambruna y bloqueo de medicamentos, lo mínimo aconsejable es elevar voces, unir voluntades, exigir una solución, tal y como ocurre hoy, cuando miles y miles de cubanos colman las principales arterias y plazas en todas las provincias y en el municipio especial Isla de la Juventud.

Gigantesco, multitudinario, el desfile no es –desde luego– el que cada año protagoniza Cuba para festejar el Día Internacional de los Trabajadores, colmado de alegría, de júbilo obrero, de iniciativas, de razones para la celebración.

Esta es una jornada de denuncia, de condena, de consternación y tristeza por tantas víctimas mortales, de indignación frente a la impunidad con que Tel Aviv bombardea, incendia, destruye y mata; de exigencia para que los organismos correspondientes hagan valer el derecho internacional.

Así ha ocurrido durante meses en los que, por igual motivo y con no menos sensibilidad, habitantes de distintas ciudades han expresado idéntico reclamo ante los ojos y oídos de un mundo que abochornaría a la especie humana actual y, sobre todo, a las nuevas generaciones que él engendre mañana, si permaneciera ciego, sordo, mudo e impasible ante un genocidio que, a la luz del lente fotográfico y cinematográfico, puede parecer ciencia ficción. Lamentablemente, es una cruda e inaceptable realidad.

Que sea hoy la oportunidad no despreciable para fundir en un solo grito, a coro, en un puño común, las innumerables frases, gestos y todo el sentimiento de repudio que diariamente brota en el hogar, en el centro de trabajo, en cualquier espacio público, frente a la magnitud de una masacre que, lejos de cesar, cada vez es más infierno, por el modo en que sigue desbordando muertes.

Cuba siente, como en carne propia, el dolor tremendo del pueblo palestino,

al que desea extinguir el Gobierno abusador y criminal de Israel.

Cuba acusa y grita: ¡Basta!

In Palestine, is there genocide or not?

 

Four trucks, with flour and other products, approach, but over the crowded multitude, with more hunger than hope, suddenly it rains shrapnel. Airplanes appear, and tanks shoot and pass their mats, even over the bodies of the wounded and dead.
Such a scene, as Dantesque as it is unimaginable, occurred yesterday in the Gaza Strip. At the end of the carnage, 112 dead bodies and more than 700 wounded in the blitzkrieg offensive of the Israeli forces against starving Palestinians.
There seems to be no salvation for a people that is being massacred before the eyes of a world that watches in astonishment, but does not act to stop the crime. More than 30,000 people have been killed and 60,000 wounded since the Zionist government began its attacks.
It will be like this as long as the UN Security Council does not pass a resolution to put an end to the massacre – vetoed today by the US – it will be like this until the International Criminal Court orders a cease-fire. Will it be?
Thursday’s was a crime against starving children waiting for a plate of food, or a glass of water to quench their thirst. Hispantv called it a “slow motion massacre”. The blockade to the entry of humanitarian aid puts more than 1,100,000 children on the brink of death, according to the NGO Save the Children.
While this was going on, U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin told Israel’s Defense Minister Yoav Gallant that he was “very concerned about the negotiations for the release of the Israeli hostages”.
With abhorrent cynicism, Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, commented in x that “full support should be given” to the “heroic fighters” of the Israeli Armed Forces operating in the area, who “performed excellently against a mob in Gaza that tried to harm them,” RT quoted him as saying.
And still there are those who question it: Israel is reprising the horrors of the greatest known holocaust.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro Calls Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza ‘Nazi Practices’

Colombian Leader Calls Israeli Airstrikes on Gaza ‘Nazi Practices’

December 3, 2023

Photo: Al-Aqsa Martyr Hospital, courtesy Anadolu Agency

Colombian President Gustavo Petro has strongly criticized the Israeli bombings of the Gaza Strip, describing the Zionist regime’s airstrikes on the city of Deir al-Balah in central Gaza as “Nazi                                                                                                          practices“.

Nazi practice, despite the West’s reluctance to acknowledge this truth,” Petro posted on his X social media platform.

Video footage of a residential area razed to rubble in the Israeli regime forces airstrikes on Deir al-Balah was attached to the posting. The Colombian has repeatedly condemned the atrocious crimes against the Palestinians

They say this is not what the Nazis did. Even if the western conscience does not like these facts, the extermination of 5,300 children of the Diaspora is Nazi, I repeat, it is a NAZI like practice

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— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo)

Colombian President Gustavo Petro

The Colombian leader had previously drawn a parallel between Israeli airstrikes on Gaza and the “Nazi-like” attacks on the besieged Gaza Strip, pointing out that genocide had been launched by the Apartheid regime in the Arab country. He has also threatened to cut ties to Tel Aviv.

Petro’s remarks reflect the growing alarm among the international community as the Israeli regime forces continue to increase the mass killing the Palestinians with at least 20,000 civilians, mostly women and children, dead since Oct. 7.

After the Israeli regime launched its cleansing operation under the pretext of eradicating resistance groups in Gaza, Petro voiced his solidarity with the Palestinian people in numerous messages posted on X.

The Colombian president has noted that the Israelis must stop their systematic attacks targeting the civilian population, urging the European Union to abide by international law and condemn Israelis’ genocidal war on Gaza.

Petro has also stressed that basic needs for human survival such as water, food, fuel, and power, must be restored in Gaza, vowing to send humanitarian aid to the besieged strip.

In addition to the nonstop Israeli bombings, shelling, and direct ground attacks, the Zionist forces have cut off basic essentials needed in Gaza. This practice is clearly to starve the Palestinian people.

Meanwhile, UN officials expressed their strong opposition to the “catastrophic” resumption of the Israelis’ genocidal war on the Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The UN humanitarian office in Geneva said on Friday the resumption of Israeli attacks on the defenseless Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip meant “hell on Earth has returned to Gaza.”

Israeli warplanes restarted nonstop airstrikes on Gaza as an extended week-long ceasefire between the regime and the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas expired on Friday.

The regime forces have also targeted medical facilities in its attacks on Gaza in a flagrant violation of international law.

The hospitals in the blockaded area have lost their capacity to treat patients, a Palestinian Health Ministry spokesperson said on Saturday.

“All hospitals are overcrowded with the number of wounded, exceeding their medical capabilities and capacity, and lacking surgical tools and bone stabilizers,” Ashraf Al-Qudra explained.

Source: Presstv

Photo: Cubaminrex

Havana, Oct 8 (RHC) The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement in which it expresses its concern about the escalation of violence between Israel and Palestine, a consequence of 75 years of permanent violation of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people and of Israel’s aggressive and expansionist policy.
“Cuba demands a broad, just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, based on the creation of two States, which allows the Palestinian people to exercise their right to self-determination and to have an independent and sovereign State within its borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital,” the text adds
Likewise, the ministry advocates that the United Nations Security Council fulfill its mandate and put an end to the impunity of Israel, “the occupying power, with which the United States has historically been complicit, by repeatedly obstructing the action of the body, undermining peace, security and stability in the Middle East.”
The statement from the Cuban Foreign Ministry concludes by calling for peace and the search for a solution through negotiation that avoids a further escalation of a conflict that has already cost the lives of tens of thousands of people. (Source: Cubaminrex)