Cuba: The island stands in solidarity with Palestine
On Monday, Cuba joined millions of voices crying out for an end to violence against Palestine and reaffirm its commitment to peace and justice. Our special envoy Belen de Los Santos tells us more.
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00:00In Cuba, people marched on Monday to condemn the genocide perpetrated by the Israeli government
00:06for more than a year against the Palestinian population and other Middle East nations.
00:11This way, the demonstration, called by the Communist Youth Union of the Caribbean country,
00:16denounced the complicity of the United States in the Zionist onslaught that has caused more
00:21than 42,000 deaths in the Gaza Strip, most of them women and children, and more than
00:262,000 in Lebanon.
00:28In the capital, Havana, the participants marched from the MartĂ Forge to the Anti-Imperialist
00:33Tribune.
00:34In the rest of the country, there were open tribunes to demand the end, without conditions
00:40or delays, of the Israeli escalation in the Middle East.
00:49In this context, on Monday, Cuba joined millions of voices crying out for an end to violence
00:54against Palestine and reaffirm its commitment to peace and justice.
00:58Our special envoy, Belén de los Santos, tells us more.
01:01Hello, studios.
01:03I come to you from Havana, Cuba, as a march in solidarity for Palestine is actually taking
01:08place today.
01:10We are in the streets of Havana, right beside the famous MalecĂłn, and this is just one
01:15more of the demonstrations that are taking place around the world and have been taking
01:19place throughout the year, but specifically during this last week, as one year has passed
01:25since the intensification of the genocidal attacks of Israel and Palestine.
01:30But this is the case of Cuba, and Cuba has particular and significant ties of solidarity
01:36with Palestine.
01:37The people have stood together with them along all their struggles.
01:41So this is a particularly significant demonstration for the Cuban people, and this is actually
01:47the culmination of a larger process that was called by the Communist Youth Union here
01:53in Cuba that involved different activities, including, for example, the visits of teachers
01:58and students from the universities that held different classes at local schools to raise
02:03awareness about the situation in Palestine, not only about the terrible acts, the genocidal
02:09acts that have been imposed by Israel on the Palestinian people and that in the last weeks
02:14have also affected Lebanon, but also of the importance of ties of solidarity, of international
02:21solidarity between the people.
02:23So this march today is a culmination of that process and is being marked by the presence
02:28of youngsters, of young school students and also university students that have taken the
02:34lead.
02:35They are also presenting a large human flag that is being raised today in honor of the
02:42young victims of this genocide.
02:44So this is what is happening right now.
02:47This is symbolically happening in Cuban Anti-Imperialist Tribune.
02:51That is the place where demonstrations are held.
02:53That is symbolically in front of the U.S. Embassy, of course, one of Israel's main allies.
03:00So that is what is happening here in Cuba.
03:03So long for us.
03:04Back to you.