Cuba: The island stands in solidarity with Palestine

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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 Martí 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 Malecón, 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.

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