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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Cuba Is Not Indifferent to the Massacre in Gaza</h1>
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By Alejandra Garcia on November 19, 2023 from Havana
</div></div><div class="gmail-content"><div class="gmail-moz-reader-content gmail-reader-show-element"><div id="gmail-readability-page-1" class="gmail-page"><div id="gmail-wrapper2"><div id="gmail-attachment_25182" class="gmail-wp-caption"><p><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-25182" src="https://i0.wp.com/resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/11-20-palestine-diaz-canel.jpg?resize=300%2C203&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="203" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img"></p><p id="gmail-caption-attachment-25182" class="gmail-wp-caption-text">President Diaz Canel receives a keffiyeh from a Palestinian medical student.</p></div>
<p>In little more than a month, 12,000 Palestinians have been killed by
Israel, including 5,000 children, before the passive gaze of the
governments of the world. It is the people of these countries who are
protesting in large numbers for an end to the conflict that is leaving
Palestine in ruins, in almost non-existent living conditions.<span id="gmail-more-25181"></span>
Every day, thousands and hundreds of thousands of demonstrators around
the world take to the streets in favor of peace, and Cuba does not
remain indifferent either, as our government and the people call in one
voice for a cease-fire and the self determination of the Palestinian
people.</p>
<p>On Friday, in a gesture of profound respect, Cuban President Miguel
Diaz-Canel and other leaders invited 144 young Palestinians studying
medicine in Cuba to a meeting at the Palace of the Revolution . And it
was emotional and heartbreaking.</p>
<p>“What a shame of humanity. Tears and even words are not enough to
alleviate the pain of the Palestinian people who are being wiped out in
an act of extermination perpetrated by Israel,” the Cuban president
stressed.</p>
<div id="gmail-attachment_25185" class="gmail-wp-caption"><p><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-25185" src="https://i0.wp.com/resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/11-20-Ricardo-Lopez-Hevia.jpg?resize=233%2C300&ssl=1" alt="" width="233" height="300" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img"></p><p id="gmail-caption-attachment-25185" class="gmail-wp-caption-text">photo: Ricardo-Lopez-Hevia</p></div>
<p>Fifty-three out of the 144 Palestinians who attended the meeting live
in the Gaza Strip. This is the case of Maria, 22, who has already
witnessed four wars in her country. She expressed her gratitude for the
act of solidarity at the Palace of the Revolution, one of the many
others that have taken place throughout the Caribbean country in support
of the Palestinian people since October 6.</p>
<p>“In Gaza, mothers carry their children twice: once in their wombs and
once in their shrouds. It’s hard to be away from family, but my mother
has asked me to continue studying, not to give up, because medicine is
the noblest job in the world. ‘Raise up your name and the name of
Palestine, she told me,” the young student recounted.</p>
<p>Mohammed Ahmed Zannoun, who has been in Cuba for nine months, told
how he and his friends cannot let the day go by without talking to their
families. “What do we Palestinians want? A free homeland. We are not
asking for anything else,” he said, adding how grateful he and his
fellow students are for Cuba’s support amid so much indifference from
the international community.</p>
<p>One prevailing sentiment prevailed in the auditorium. “Our territory
won’t be razed to the ground, and our people won’t be exterminated
because there will always be a combatant left standing.” And an image
prevailed as well; that of the students placed on the shoulders of the
Cuban leaders a traditional keffiyeh that symbolizes the Palestinian
people, the same item that Fidel once wore on the shoulders of his
uniform.</p>
<p><img src="https://i0.wp.com/resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/11-10-fidel.jpg?resize=249%2C300&ssl=1" alt="" width="249" height="300" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img"><br>“We
Cubans learned to defend the Palestinian cause from the
internationalist and humanist vision of the historic leader of our
Revolution, Commander in Chief Fidel Castro Ruz, who was always a friend
of that nation that demands its right to self-determination,” the
president declared.</p>
<p>This Friday, the Cuban and Palestinian flags also illuminated the
facade of the José Martí monument in the emblematic Plaza de la
Revolución, thanks to renowned Cuban artists.</p>
<p>The island has expressed on numerous occasions its unconditional
support for the right of Palestine to be a free and sovereign state,
with its capital in East Jerusalem and in pre-1967 borders. This
yearning has been frustrated by the interference of US-backed Israel,
whose land confiscation, illegal settlements, and widespread
discrimination have inflicted suffering on the Palestinian population,
stripping them of their fundamental rights.</p>
<p>“We strongly condemn Israel’s genocide. We will accompany Palestine
in fulfilling its dream. As Fidel once said, it is time to put an end to
the philosophy of dispossession so that the philosophy of war dies due
to lack of incentives,” the Cuban president concluded.</p>
<p>Source: Resumen Latinoamericano – English</p>
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