Havana, March 30 (Prensa Latina) Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez demanded an immediate end to the Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people and reaffirmed his solidarity with that cause, as Palestinian Land Day is commemorated today.
In his account on X, the Cuban Minister of Foreign Affairs urged that this date, promulgated in 1976, constitute an urgent call for justice.
We demand an end to the genocide against this sister nation and reaffirm our solidarity and commitment to their just cause. Palestine must be independent and sovereign, within its pre-1967 borders, Rodríguez wrote on social media.
Today, the Caribbean island commemorates Palestinian Land Day, in remembrance of the murder of six young Palestinians during a demonstration against the dispossession of their lands by the Zionist regime.
The day before, residents of the capital commemorated the 49th anniversary of the first general strike of the Palestinian people demanding their rights and against the theft of their land by Israel, during an event held at the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).
“The Palestinian war is not another territorial conflict, it’s a human rights crisis, where fear and mistrust have become part of everyday life,” said Mohammed Bheisi, a Palestinian medical student in Cuba.
Bheisi thanked the Cuban government and people for their expressions of solidarity.
For his part, ICAP President Fernando González stated that the Caribbean country will continue to demand an end to the Israeli genocide against Palestine and the recognition of that nation as a state by the UN.
The Palestinian people are deprived of human rights, including the right to life, González stated during the solidarity event attended by Teresa Amarelle, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party (PCC).
“We are here to denounce before history the crime committed against Palestine; the genocide of which its people are victims is an open wound on the conscience of humanity,” declared Fernando González, President of ICAP and Hero of the Republic of Cuba.
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