The Cuban president and all of his cabinet members, most wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh, took part in a rally on Saturday, where chants rang out in support of Palestine and condemnation of the Israeli attacks.
Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel led a massive rally in Havana on Saturday in solidarity with the Palestinian people amidst the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
The rally, organized by the Union of Young Communists, came in response to the call for a Global Action Day for Gaza, where about 100 cities around the world showed their support for Gaza, reports the Middle East Monitor (MEMO).
The Cuban president and all of his cabinet members, most wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh, took part in the rally, where chants rang out in support of Palestine and condemnation of the Israeli attacks.
#Cuba, que jamás será indiferente ante el crimen, se suma a la jornada mundial de apoyo al pueblo palestino y exige que se ponga fin al genocidio israelí en #Gaza.
¡Basta de brutalidad, basta de abuso, basta de impunidad!#FreePalestine#ShutItDown4Palestine pic.twitter.com/UEiVhoxUah
— Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) March 1, 2024
Diaz-Canel shared photos of the rally on his X account, saying Palestine “hurts deeply,” and adding “The impunity of those who mercilessly bomb their people is outrageous.”
He expressed his outrage at the lack of punishment for those who bomb the people of occupied Palestine mercilessly and made it clear that Cuba would not remain indifferent to such crimes.
“Today we have expressed the pain and indignation of the people of Cuba in the Anti-imperialist Tribune. Cease on #GenocidioEnGaza,” he wrote.
In a post on X ahead of the rally, the Cuban president said that five months ago, “humanity witnessed with horror a new holocaust.”
Ayer acompañé a mandatarios latinoamericanos y caribeños en un debate solidario con el pueblo de #Palestina y contra el genocidio de Israel en Gaza, durante la VIII Cumbre de #CELAC.
Reiteramos nuestro llamado a la paz, al cese al fuego y facilitar entrada de ayuda humanitaria. pic.twitter.com/xeaBhkO1Vj
— Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) March 2, 2024
He referred to the Gaza Strip as the “largest open prison in the world” and “a concentration camp” for the more than 2 million Palestinians who reside there.
He said Cuba demands “the end of the Israeli genocide in Gaza.”
“Enough brutality! Enough abuse! Enough Impunity!” Diaz-Canel stressed.
The president criticized the US veto in the UN Security Council against a ceasefire resolution, saying “Stop the imperialist hypocrisy that vetoes ceasefire resolutions in the UN Security Council, while their government acts as an accomplice to the barbarism with its unscrupulous and anti-democratic exercise of the veto.”
He added that the US “undermines peace and stability in the Middle East, and by extension, the whole world.”
More than 30,500 Killed
Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war on Gaza since October 7.
According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 30,534 Palestinians have been killed, and 71,920 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza starting on October 7.
Moreover, at least 7,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.
#Cuba, que jamás será indiferente ante el crimen, se suma a la jornada mundial de apoyo al pueblo palestino y exige que se ponga fin al genocidio israelí en #Gaza.
¡Basta de brutalidad, basta de abuso, basta de impunidad!#FreePalestine#ShutItDown4Palestine pic.twitter.com/UEiVhoxUah
— Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez (@DiazCanelB) March 1, 2024
Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.
The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.
Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by ‘friendly fire’.
(PC, MEMO)