Cuban president leads pro-Palestinian march in Havana

Thousands of Cubans, led by President Miguel Diaz-Canel and different leaders of the communist-run island, marched successful Havana to explicit solidarity with Palestinians successful Gaza.

The demonstrators, including immoderate 250 Palestinian aesculapian students surviving successful Cuba, carried a ample banner that work “Long unrecorded escaped Palestine”, portion the president and his allies wore keffiyeh scarves – an emblem of Palestinian solidarity.

“We are present to enactment the conscionable assertion of the Palestinian people, for their sovereignty, their state … and against the genocidal crusade that Israel practices towards the Palestinian people,” said Michel Marino, a 20-year-old planetary relations student, astatine the lawsuit connected Monday.

The march had been owed to instrumentality spot connected October 7 to commemorate the archetypal day of Israel’s warfare connected Gaza aft a Hamas-led battle connected confederate Israel, but it was postponed owed to Hurricane Milton, which lashed Cuba and Florida successful the United States past week.

“For a full year, our Gaza has not had a azygous time of calm, not a azygous time of bid and our radical successful the West Bank endure regular aggression portion the satellite remains paralysed and incapable to halt this tragedy,” said Mohammed Suwan, a Palestinian student, arsenic helium addressed the participants.

In June, the Caribbean land joined a suit filed by South Africa against Israel earlier the International Court of Justice implicit its subject violative successful Gaza.