Havana, October 15 (RHC) -- Thousands of Havana residents, led by Miguel Díaz-Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, staged a march on Monday in solidarity with the peoples of Palestine and Lebanon who are suffering genocide by Zionist forces.

The route between the Fragua Martiana and the Anti-Imperialist Tribune, on the Malecón, was marked by signs, songs, slogans and a large human flag of Palestine, a symbol of the lives massacred by the State of Israel, among other initiatives with which Cubans reiterated their call for an immediate end to the escalation of violence unleashed in the Middle East.

Meyvis Estévez Echeverría, first secretary of the National Committee of the Union of Young Communists (UJC), said that the crime that has so far taken the lives of more than 40 thousand people and entire families buried under irrational hatred cannot be erased from memory.

She condemned the hypocrisy of U.S. imperialism that acts as an accomplice to barbarism of such proportions and considers itself morally superior to keep Cuba on its list of supposed state sponsors of terrorism.

“From this island we defend the right of the Palestinians and of all the peoples of the world to live with dignity and we reaffirm the political will and commitment of the Cuban State to peace, cooperation and respect for the sovereignty of nations,” added the youth leader.During the event, which was attended by the country's top leadership, Palestinian students also spoke, expressing through their art and oratory their desire not to renounce their homeland and their infinite gratitude to Cuba.

Omayma Alkhawaga, a Palestinian doctor who graduated on the island, agreed with these positions and emphasized that the solidarity of the Caribbean nation is unparalleled in the world.

“Once again, Cubans have risen to support a just cause, as they have done in the past with so many others, and to raise the message that Palestine is not alone,” she concluded. (Source: ACN)