Cuba Reaffirms Support for the Rights of the Palestinian People

Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez today reiterated his country's support for the creation of the State of Palestine with its capital in East Jerusalem and its pre-1967 borders.

Through the social network X, the top representative of Cuban diplomacy said that "there are more than 70 years of dispossession of the Palestinian people," stressing that the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has clearly ruled that Israel's presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is illegal.

The highest court of the United Nations (UN) ruled the day before that Israel's occupation of the Palestinian territories is illegal and violates the Palestinian people's right to self-determination.

It also ruled that Israel must immediately cease further settlement activities, evacuate all settlers from the occupied territories and repeal all laws and measures that create or maintain the illegal situation.

It noted that Tel Aviv's laws and measures constitute a violation of Article 3 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination and Apartheid.

The judges called on all UN member states, among other things, not to recognize changes on the ground, not to assist the Zionist government in maintaining this illegal presence, and to distinguish between Israel and the Occupied Territories.