Havana, October 9 (RHC)-- Students, workers and people in general, gathered on Tuesday in the central Marti Park in the city of Ciego de Avila to express their support for the self-determination and peace of the nation of Palestine, attacked by the Zionist state of Israel.

After a year of continuous conflict in the Gaza Strip, where about 2.3 million Palestinians live, a genocide has been committed with more than 60 thousand deaths to date, mostly women, children and the elderly.

Alexis Valdés Hamadi, president of the Arab Association of Cuba in the province of Ciego de Avila, recalled the background of the conflict dating back to the late 19th century with the emergence of the Zionist movement, and rejected, in addition to the genocide committed in the Gaza Strip, the bombing of civilians in Lebanon and Syria, which reaffirms the inhuman and barbaric nature of the Israeli regime.

Also in Santiago de Cuba, at the Monument to the Martyrs of the University of Oriente, the people staged a great mobilization of solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

According to Carl-Adrien Jean Baptiste, a medical student from Haiti, genocide is a crime everywhere in the world, that is why we must fight for just causes so that peace can be felt in every space.   The Palestinian brothers are not alone, the world is at their side, defending the cessation of the attack on the Gaza Strip, he said.

Likewise, in the young province of Artemisa, the locals ratified the support of the province to the Palestinian cause, in a day where more than four thousand children received their blue scarf and the welcome to the Organization of José Martí Pioneers (OPJM).

The Mausoleum of the Martyrs of Artemisa hosted the act of revolutionary reaffirmation in which, Lázara Yudelky Quiala Leal, first secretary of the Union of Young Communists (UJC) in the territory, said that the “Palestinian people have shown admirable courage in the face of oppression”.

Their resistance, she added, “is not only an act of defense of their land, but a cry for justice that resounds in every corner of the world.