Cuba for the right to life in Palestine

Cuba commemorated Palestine Day in memory of the murder of six young Palestinians during a demonstration in 1976 against the expropriation of their land by the Zionist regime.

On Saturday, the Cuban Institute for Friendship with Peoples (ICAP), hosted a ceremony to remember the 49th anniversary of the first general strike of the Palestinian people to demand their rights and against the theft of their territory by Israel.

“The Palestinian war is not just another territorial conflict, it is a human rights crisis where fear and mistrust have become part of everyday life,” Mohammed Bheisi, a Palestinian student studying medicine in Cuba, stressed.

ICAP President Fernando Gonzales reiterated that Cuba will continue to demand an end to the Israeli genocide against Palestine and its recognition as a state at the UN.

More than 9,500 Palestinians are currently held in Israeli prisons, including 350 minors and 22 women, two organisations linked to the issue denounced today.

The Prisoners’ Club and the Commission for Prisoners and Ex Prisoners’ Affairs stressed in a joint communiqué that the detainees are subjected to systematic violations.

The two organizations warned over the death of at least 63 prisoners since the beginning of the new phase of the conflict in October 2002.

They accused the Israeli government of executing “systematic crimes perpetrated by the prison system against prisoners”.