Havana, August 10 (RHC) -- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez on Saturday condemned statements made by the Israeli government calling for the population of Gaza to die of hunger, which is evidence of the genocide committed in Palestine.

The foreign minister thus rejected the position of the Israeli finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, who stated that “letting the two million Palestinians in Gaza die of hunger would be justified and moral.”

These comments “horrified” the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Turk, who believes that this statement incites hatred against innocent civilians, the media reported today, on another day marked by the deadly Zionist bombing of a Gazan school.

Turk's office asked the Israeli authorities to monitor public officials whose official statements on the ongoing conflict in Gaza could promote war crimes.

What the Israeli minister said set off alarm bells, just today when his country's military launched a new air attack on a school in Gaza, resulting in more than 100 dead and dozens wounded, in the latest episode of indiscriminate bombings by the Zionist regime against the civilian infrastructure of Palestine.

The Cuban authorities maintain a firm position of systematic rejection of the course of the war in that nation occupied by Israel, and reaffirm that the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is committing genocide against the Palestinian people.  (Source: Prensa Latina)