Cuban and Palestinian students gathered on May 15 to commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Nakba – Israel’s ethnic cleansing and occupation of Palestinian cities and villages in 1948 – and condemn Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza. Watch our video about the event HERE.
Cuba has long supported the Palestinian struggle. Since Israel’s invasion of Gaza in October 2023, thousands of Cubans have hit the streets in state-organized marches in solidarity with the Palestinian people.
More than 150 Palestinian young people currently study medicine in Cuba, many of them from Gaza. Cuba has offered scholarships to Palestinian students to study for free on the island for decades.
WATCH From Gaza to Cuba, our documentary about Murid Abukhater, a Palestinian student from Gaza studying at Cuba’s Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM) who dreams of returning home to work as a doctor to help save lives.
