Havana, Nov 29 (Prensa Latina) The International Day of Solidarity with the cause of that Arab nation will be celebrated today in Havana with a cantata in support of the Palestinian people in the face of the aggression of the Israeli army.
The central Cuba Pavilion will serve as the venue for the meeting where Cuban and foreign students and other citizens will demand the immediate cessation of the genocide committed daily by the Zionist government of Benjamin Netanyahu in the Gaza Strip for more than a year.
The participants will once again denounce the complicity of the United States in Tel Aviv’s military onslaught, which has so far caused the death of more than 43,800 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, and more than 700 in the West Bank, 70 percent of them women and children, according to UN data.
This Caribbean nation has expressed on countless occasions its unconditional support for the right of Palestine to be a free and sovereign state, and several of the massive demonstrations in support of that cause have been led by its top leaders.
President Miguel Díaz-Canel met last November 17 at the Palace of the Revolution (seat of the Executive) with 144 young Palestinians studying medicine in the Caribbean nation, to whom he assured that “Cuba is, and will always be, at the side of the brotherly people of Palestine”.
At present, around 200 young people from that nation are studying medicine in Cuba, 26 of them women, in the classrooms of the Latin American School of Medicine (ELAM), in Havana, and in other universities of Medical Sciences located in Santi Spíritus, Cienfuegos, Holguín and Guantánamo.
They come mostly from the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, the Palestinian Diaspora and also Jordan, Syria and Lebanon.
The United Nations (UN) General Assembly declared November 29 as the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People in commemoration of the date on which the General Assembly adopted Resolution 181 (II) on the partition of Palestine.
(Taken from PL)
