Cuban organizations reaffirmed their solidarity and permanent support for the Palestinian people, in view of the escalation of violence in the conflict with Israel, unleashed last Saturday, whose preliminary toll exceeds 1,000 dead.
The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) and the Cuban-Arab Friendship Association, in a joint statement, joined the position of the Foreign Ministry of the largest Antillean island, to demand a comprehensive, fair and lasting solution to the conflict.
“For 75 years the Palestinian population has faced, in an unequal struggle, the growing hostility of the Israeli State, which has been determined to displace it from its own territory, failing to comply with the resolutions of the United Nations Organization (UN) and violating the basic rights of the human being”, the statement stresses.
The text adds that it is the duty of all nations to condemn the critical situation that this people is going through.
A communiqué from the Cuban Foreign Ministry, issued on Saturday, reiterated the call for a solution to the conflict, based on the creation of two States, so that the Palestinian people can exercise their right to self-determination and to have an independent and sovereign State within the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
In the document, the Cuban Government urged the UN Security Council to fulfill its mandate and put an end to the impunity of Israel, the occupying power, in which the United States has been historically complicit, by repeatedly obstructing the action of the body, undermining peace, security and stability in the Middle East.
The Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs called for peace and the search for a solution through negotiation to avoid a further escalation of the conflict (Source: Cubadebate)
