The event was also attended by senior Cuban government officials, the charge d’affaires of the Palestinian Embassy in Havana, Majed Abu Al Hawa, young Palestinians studying at universities on the Caribbean island, and representatives of Cuban civil society organizations.
From the stage located in front of the United States Embassy, speakers denounced the brutal Israeli offensive, while audiovisual testimonies were projected from members of the Palestinian freedom flotillas—participants in the Global Summit—who were assaulted and kidnapped on the high seas by the Israeli army while trying to deliver humanitarian aid to Gaza.
Three Palestinian students expressed, through songs and poetry, their outrage at the deaths of more than 67,000 people and the injuries sustained by more than 200,000 since the Israeli army intensified its aggression in a disproportionate response to the incursion of Hamas forces into Israeli territory on October 7, 2023.
Student Abdalah Samir expressed his gratitude for Cuba’s unconditional support for Palestine and expressed his solidarity with the brave people of Venezuela, who are suffering threats and aggression from the United States in its quest to seize oil and other natural resources.
Razan Malah, also a Palestinian student, recounted the trauma of her sister’s death and the Israeli army’s siege against her family.
Sabrina Padin, a primary school student from Havana, addressed her “fellow Palestinian pioneers,” whose schools are in ruins and whose families are hiding to survive.
Norma Goicochea, president of the Cuban Association of the United Nations, strongly condemned “the genocide and extermination carried out by Israel.”
The second secretary of the Young Communist League, Yaliel Cobo, denounced the “historical complicity of the United States, the supposed champion of democracy, which today feels not the slightest remorse for the genocide in Gaza, where more than 67,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, have died.”
