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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Cuba Describes the Crimes Against Palestine at the UN in Geneva as Genocide</h1>
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<p>February 28, 2025</p>
<div id="gmail-attachment_29594" class="gmail-wp-caption"><p><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-29594" src="https://i0.wp.com/resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/3-3-un.jpg?resize=300%2C150&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="150" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img"></p><p id="gmail-caption-attachment-29594" class="gmail-wp-caption-text">Cuba ambassador to the UN Rodolfo Benitez</p></div>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<div id="gmail-attachment_29595" class="gmail-wp-caption"><p><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-29595" src="https://i0.wp.com/resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/IMG_1699.jpg?resize=201%2C300&ssl=1" alt="" width="201" height="300" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img"></p><p id="gmail-caption-attachment-29595" class="gmail-wp-caption-text">Cubans rally for Palestine on the steps of the University of Havana, photo; Bill Hackwell</p></div>
<p>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?”</p>
<p>He also warned that every minute of impunity and passivity means that
more innocents continue to be killed, maimed, detained and displaced.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>“Gaza belongs to Palestine, not to Washington or Tel Aviv,” he said.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Source: <a href="https://cubaenresumen.org/2025/02/28/cuba-califica-de-genocidio-los-crimenes-contra-palestina-en-la-onu-ginebra/">Cuba en Resumen</a></p>
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