OFFICIAL VOICE OF THE COMMUNIST PARTY OF CUBA CENTRAL COMMITTEE
Photo: Jorge Garcell

"Stripped of their lands, expelled from their own homeland, dispersed throughout the world, persecuted and murdered, the heroic Palestinians constitute an impressive example of self-sacrifice and patriotism, and are the living symbol of the greatest crime of our time."

It will be 45 years since these words of Fidel, at the VI Summit Conference of the Movement of Non-Aligned Movement, in September 1979, in Havana.

Cuba, consistent with its history and its principles, would never contemplate, indifferently, such an atrocious crime as the one that is being repeated today in the Gaza Strip, with impunity, before the eyes of the world.

True peoples suffer the pain of other peoples, and it is this sentiment that is mobilizing the worldwide call for this Saturday, March 2, for the righteous to take to the streets in all countries to raise their voices in defense of the Palestinians displaced to a corner of their own land.

There in Rafah, in a mere 42 square kilometers, one and a half million Palestinians seem condemned to a massive death, after the threats of the Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to order an offensive against what is today almost a concentration camp.

As in all continents at the same time, the students, the youth, the women, the workers, the whole Cuban society, united, will raise their voices that day, in the squares of all the provinces, as in Havana, in the anti-imperialist José Martí tribune, to demand that there be not one more bomb, that the massacre in the Gaza Strip cease now.

The appointment is to denounce this new offensive that would completely exterminate an entire people, stressed Osmayda Hernández Beleño, member of the Secretariat of the Federation of Cuban Women; while Reudenys Salas Hartemant, member of the National Bureau of the Union of Young Communists, called to be there, where an accusing Martí inspires, and where the greatest accomplice and sponsor of the Zionist aggressor: the Government of the United States, can be summoned, with his head held high, the greatest accomplice and sponsor of the Zionist aggressor: the Government of the United States.

For Palestine, the strength of solidarity, love and justice are more powerful than weapons.