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Cuban solidarity with Palestine
Published Nov 16, 2006 11:52 PM
Statement by the Cuban Ministry of Foreign
Affairs
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Cuba observes
with extreme concern and profound indignation the atrocities
committed since June 28 by the government of Israel in the Gaza
Strip and the West Bank, in particular the November 7 massacre in
the town of Beit Hanoun in the north of that occupied Palestinian
territory. In the attack,
18 civilians were brutally murdered, among them eight
children.
As a result of the cruel offensive of the Israeli army against
the defenseless Palestinian population in recent weeks, more than
200 civilians have been killed, among them 60 children, and
almost 1,000 have been wounded. This demonstrates the criminal
nature of the aggressor, which enjoys the political, economic and
military support of the United States.
Cuba joins the voices around the world calling on the U.N.
Security Council to condemn this criminal act and demands Israel
put an end to such actions, which violate all the norms of
International Law and Humanitarian International Law. Cuba also
calls for an end to the permanent veto by the United States at
the U.N. Security Council that grants Israel impunity.
The only path to a fair and lasting peace in the region is by
respecting the undeniable right of the Palestinian people to
establish an independent and sovereign state of its own, with its
capital in East Jerusalem; allowing the return of the refugees;
and unconditionally handing back all Arab territories that were
occupied in June 1967.
At this crucial hour, Cuba reaffirms its full solidarity with the
heroic Palestinian people, victims of the continuous and immoral
aggression of the Tel Aviv régime, whose acts deeply hurt
humanity’s conscience.
—GRANMA, Nov.
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