[News] Cuba Describes the Crimes Against Palestine at the UN in Geneva as Genocide

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Cuba Describes the Crimes Against Palestine at the UN in Geneva as Genocide
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February 28, 2025

Cuba ambassador to the UN Rodolfo Benitez

Cuba’s ambassador to the UN in Geneva, Rodolfo Benítez, on Thursday
described the crimes committed by Israel against the Palestinian people as
genocide and denounced the complicity of the United States for its support
with arms and funds.

The current humanitarian catastrophe is the continuation of more than seven
decades of illegal occupation, abuse, attacks and exclusion, he emphasized
when he spoke here in an interactive dialogue with the United Nations High
Commissioner for Human Rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories,
including East Jerusalem.

The diplomat rejected Washington’s support for Israel in its outrages in
the Gaza Strip and the West Bank with arms, money and the veto in the UN
Security Council, and the complicit silence of other countries, which he
did not mention.

Cubans rally for Palestine on the steps of the University of Havana, photo;
Bill Hackwell

In his speech, the Cuban diplomat asked the forum: “How many more children
and women must be massacred before the international community acts and
provides the international protection that the Palestinian people urgently
need?”

He also warned that every minute of impunity and passivity means that more
innocents continue to be killed, maimed, detained and displaced.

Benítez also reiterated the island’s categorical opposition to any plan to
expel the Palestinians from their territory, and recalled that to attempt
to do so would be classified as a serious crime of ethnic cleansing under
international law.

This rejection takes place in a context of growing global condemnation of
President Donald Trump’s plans for the United States to take control of the
Gaza Strip, in a kind of real estate and tourism project that ignores the
consequences for its inhabitants and neighboring countries.

“Gaza belongs to Palestine, not to Washington or Tel Aviv,” he said.

The Cuban representative demanded respect for the Palestinians’ right to
self-determination and to build their own independent and sovereign state
and insisted on the need to realize that right as the only effective way to
stop the spiral of violence, save human lives and chart a viable course
towards peace.

Source: Cuba en Resumen
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