Havana, August 21 (RHC) -- Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez today reiterated his country's denunciation of Israel's ongoing attacks on hospitals, schools and refugee centers in the Gaza Strip.

On his profile on the social network X, the island's top diplomat stated that these actions are in violation of International Humanitarian Law.

Israel has killed at least 16,480 Palestinian children in #Gaza since October 2023, proof of its acts of extermination of the people of #Palestine, the Cuban foreign minister noted in his message.

Cuba has reiterated its repudiation of the genocide committed by the Zionist government of Israel against the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza, since the beginning of the military onslaught last October.

On Tuesday, President Miguel Díaz-Canel stated that the bombings of the Israeli army have caused the death of more than 40 thousand Palestinians, as well as around 92 thousand wounded and almost two million displaced.

"The day that future generations ask why we did not stop the Holocaust, we will not have a dignified and reasonable answer," the president pointed out in X.

That day, the general director of the Government Information Office in Gaza, Ismail Al-Thawabta, detailed that among the population killed "in a clear and massive way" there are 16,480 minors.

He said that of that number, 115 were born and died during the conflict, and in total 35 died so far as a result of hunger and malnutrition, a situation that affects some 3,500 of them throughout the coastal enclave.

He also pointed out that more than 17,000 children live without their parents or without one of them because they were killed by the Israeli military.

UNICEF recently warned about the serious humanitarian situation suffered by the civilian population in Gaza  . (Source: Prensa Latina)