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Tens of thousands of Cubans participated in a march that passed in front of the American embassy in HavanaThursday, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, accusing Israel of committing extermination in Gaza.
The march was led by the President of Cuba Miguel Diaz-Canel On the Malecón coastal road in Havana, where the US Embassy is located, in the first protest of its kind in more than 10 years, according to Reuters.
He was the late Cuban president Fidel Castro He organizes similar demonstrations to protest US sanctions and interference in his country’s affairs.
The demonstrators, who raised the Palestinian flag, chanted, “Liberate, liberate Palestine,” and “Israel is genocide,” as they passed the American embassy and gathered nearby.
A university professor named Annette Rodriguez said, “We are here and our passing in front of the American embassy is not a coincidence.”
She added, “The United States is one of the parties most responsible for supporting the State of Israel… It supports a massacre against the Palestinians and international laws are being violated.”
Cuba is one of the countries that has supported the Palestinian cause for decades, has trained more than 200 Palestinian doctors, and has no diplomatic relations with Israel.
Since the Palestinian resistance launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on October 7, and the devastating Israeli war on Gaza that followed, a number of Latin American countries have taken prominent positions in support of the Palestinian people.
Bolivia announced the severing of its diplomatic relations with Israel for committing crimes against humanity. Colombia also expelled the Israeli ambassador, and its president likened the war on Gaza to the actions of the Nazis against the Jews during World War II.
Honduras summoned its ambassador to Israel for consultations due to what it described as Tel Aviv’s violations of international humanitarian law in the Gaza Strip.
