Cuban Parliament approves declaration in support of Palestine

On the first day of the 2nd Ordinary Session of the Cuban Parliament on Wednesday, in its 10th Legislature, the lawmakers ratified a text that expresses indignation at the genocide against the people of Palestine, and highlights the failure of the current international order to prevent this massacre. It also condemns the murders of thousands of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, 70 percent of whom are children and women, as a consequence of the indiscriminate bombings by Israel since October 7.

It also stresses that the current situation is the consequence of 75 years of Israel’s practices of illegal occupation and colonization.

The text condemns the Zionist regime’s attacks on hospitals, schools, refugee camps, United Nations center in blocks, homes and other civilian infrastructure, as well as the deprivation of water, food, electricity and the blockade of humanitarian aid to the population of Gaza.

It also denounces the deliberate murders of dozens of journalists.

All these actions, the declaration stresses, constitute serious violations of International Humanitarian Law, International Law, and war crimes and crimes against humanity.

The Cuban lawmakers also criticized the US Government’s responsibility and complicity in this genocide, by obstructing the Security Council’s action through the antidemocratic and obsolete veto power to protect the excesses of the Israeli Government.

The impunity with which Israel has historically acted can only be explained by its confidence that it will have no consequences due to the US Government’s support, he stressed in the text.

The parliamentarians made an urgent call for an immediate ceasefire and the beginning of negotiations between the parties.

They also reiterated the need for a comprehensive, just and lasting solution to the conflict, based on the creation of two States, which would allow the Palestinian people the right to self-determination and to have an independent and sovereign State, based on the pre-1967 borders and with East Jerusalem as its capital.