By Katherin Hormigó Rubio Photos: Dunia Álvarez Palacios and Estudios Revolución859, translated from the Spanish
The Anti-Imperialist Tribune of Havana, a symbol of Cuban struggles, was the place chosen for the youth and the Cuban people to meet once again on October 14 to raise their voices against the genocide that continues to be committed against Palestine one year after October 7
The people gathered at Martí's Forge to walk from there, together, to the Anti-Imperialist Tribune, to demand, together with the Palestinian brothers and sisters who study in our country, the end of the genocide by the government of Israel against the Palestinian people and an end to its attacks on other nations of the Middle East.
The mass mobilization was headed by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, accompanied by the members of the Political Bureau, Esteban Lazo Hernández, President of the National Assembly of People's Power and the Council of State; the Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz; and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla, among other leaders of the Party and the Government.
Called by the Young Communist Union (UJC), the demonstration also denounced the complicity of the US government in Israel's continual bombardment of the Gaza Strip, which has caused more than 42,000 deaths, most of them women and children.
In front of old San Lázaro, today Fragua Martiana, the National President of the Federation of High School Students, Laniel González, referred to the magnitude of the Israeli genocide in Gaza, while highlighting Cuba's unconditional support for Palestine.
"Those who choose silence when they know that a people demands justice, without a doubt, are traitors to basic humanity. Silence in the face of oppression is complicity and we, the Cuban people, are not accomplices to these acts or to terrorism," González stressed.
González pointed out that before the Apostle, young Cubans proclaim like Martí that, "in Palestine, everything can be torn apart but good will rise above all. Flowers will bloom among thorns."
During the march, Palestinian students in Cuba expresses the will of their compatriots to resist until they reclaim their nation and achieve their inalienable rights and a just and lasting peace.
Posters, chants, and slogans marked the procession and a large human flag of Palestine was formed, a symbol of the lives lost and those massacred by the state of Israel. These were some of the ways Cubans reiterated their call for an immediate end to the escalation of violence being unleashed in the Middle East.
In addition, they denounced the expansionism of the State of Israel, and its aggression against nations such as Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, against the entire region, with the complicity of the United States, all while the world remains paralyzed, unable to stop the tragedy.
It is not a war, it is a generalized and mounting genocide, said a young Palestinian student at the rally while also his gratitude to Cuba for its permanent solidarity with the just cause of his people.
The first secretary of the UJC, Meyvis Estévez, said that the march, together with those that have been held throughout Cuba in recent days, reaffirms the position of the Caribbean nation with respect to the people and the Government of Palestine, whose resistance she described as "an impressive example of selflessness and patriotism."
She also pointed out that more than a year of Israel's escalations have been terrible day for the Palestinians in Gaza: "We cannot allow the more than 42,000 people to be killed and massacred, including more than 16,000 children with about 100,000 wounded, to be forgotten or erased from memory."
"Every time a Palestinian or a person in Lebanon, Syria and Yemen is killed, our humanity is also murdered and shamed. Waking up under bombardment, losing your siblings, your parents; being unable to dream like children because they have taken away your childhood, that is Palestine today."
The voices of young Cuban university students were heard among the crowds, such as José Alberto Almeida, President of the FEU at the University of Havana, who pointed out that Israel is committing genocide in Palestine and in the Middle East. "We are young Cuban revolutionary humanists and obviously we cannot be indifferent to what is happening to the comrade Palestinian people. This is the feeling of the Cuban people and in the university we share this with the Palestinian students."
Once again, under the colors of the lone star flag and that of the comrade peoples of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and Yemen, the people of Havana, in the name of Cuba, said no to the genocide, a genocide that has already claimed so many lives, a genocide that increasingly wounds humanity.
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