Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel called Israel a ‘terrorist state’. He made this comment in a post on micro blogging site X (former Twitter) on Tuesday. He called for an end to the Israel-Hamas war that has been going on for almost two and a half months in the Gaza Strip.
Miguel said in the post, ‘The genocide carried out by the terrorist state of Israel in Gaza is an insult to the entire human race. How many days there will be such an impunity situation! How many days will be open to such murder! Cuba will never be among the indifferent. Cuba will repeatedly speak for Palestine.
The island nation has repeatedly condemned the violence in Palestine. Even the Cuban parliament has declared solidarity with the Palestinian people.
On December 20, the Cuban Congress condemned Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of the Gaza Strip since October 7, killing thousands of Palestinians, more than 70 percent of whom were children and women.
The current situation is the result of Israel’s 75 years of illegal occupation and colonization, the statement said. This is a clear violation of the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to their own land.
Apart from this, the statement also mentions the US government’s complicity with the massacre. It said the United States was using the undemocratic and unconventional power of veto to obstruct the UN Security Council and support all of Israel’s excesses. The impunity with which Israel operates reflects the country’s confidence that it will not suffer any consequences if it has the support of the US government.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has expressed his determination to continue an all-out war against the Palestinian group Hamas, despite recent calls by several allies to scale back Israel’s military operations and protect civilians.
Since Hamas attacked Israel on October 7 and killed 1,200 people, Israel has been carrying out brutal attacks on Gaza. At least 21,000 Palestinians were killed, most of them women and children. About 55,000 more were injured, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health.
The war has destroyed or damaged 60 percent of Gaza’s infrastructure and displaced nearly two million people. Millions of people in Gaza are suffering from lack of food, clean water and medicine.
