Cuban Parliament approves declaration in solidarity with Palestine
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The Cuban Parliament unanimously agrees to declare solidarity with the Palestinian people and condemn the crimes of the Israeli occupation entity.
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A Cuban flag is seen near the nation's capital in Havana on November 15, 2021. (AFP)
On Wednesday, December 20, the Cuban Parliament unanimously approved a declaration of solidarity with the Palestinian people, condemning the Israeli occupation's crimes.
During the Second Ordinary Session of the National Assembly of People's Power, in its 10th Legislature - in the presence of General Raul Castro and the President of the Republic, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez - the representatives approved a statement in which they condemned the genocide against the Palestinian people, highlighting the failure of the current international system to prevent the cessation of the Israeli massacres against the Palestinian people.
The Cuban Parliament condemned "the killing of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, more than 70% of them children and women, as a result of the indiscriminate bombardments carried out by Israel since October 7. The current situation is the result of 75 years of Israeli practices of illegal occupation and colonization in flagrant violation of the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people in their own land."
The statement condemned the attacks carried out by the occupation against hospitals, schools, refugee camps, the United Nations' Centers, buildings, homes, and other civilian infrastructure, in addition to depriving the Gaza Strip of water, food, electricity, and preventing the arrival of humanitarian aid.
US government complicit
Cuban parliamentarians also condemned the deliberate killing of dozens of press workers, warning that all these acts constitute serious violations of international humanitarian law and international law, and are considered war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The Cuban representatives criticized the US government's policy and its complicity in this genocide,"by obstructing the action of the Security Council through the antidemocratic and obsolete power of veto to protect the excesses of the government of Israel. The impunity with which Israel has historically acted can only be explained by its confidence that there will be no consequences due to the backing of the US government."
The parliamentarians urgently called for an immediate ceasefire and the start of ceasefire talks, stressing “the need for a comprehensive, just and lasting solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, based on the creation of two States, which would allow the Palestinian people the right to self-determination and to have an independent and sovereign State within their pre-1967 borders and with East Jerusalem as its capital."
Not the first condemnation by Cuba's parliament
Last month, on November 30, representatives in the National Assembly of the People's Power in Cuba called for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza and to allow the unrestricted entry of urgent humanitarian aid.
A motion signed by several Cuban parliamentarians called for an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of all Israeli forces from the Gaza Strip. They emphasized that the war has caused a humanitarian catastrophe for the residents of Gaza, who have been displaced from their houses and now face food insecurity and medical emergencies.
They condemned the Israeli aggression for having resulted in thousands of innocent civilian casualties due to the indiscriminate and continuous bombing.
The parliamentarians also emphasized the Palestinians' right to return to their lands, demanding full accountability for all war crimes and human rights violations committed by the Zionist occupation against the Palestinians.
