Cuba commemorates Palestinian Land Day

Next Saturday, on the occasion of this date, a political and cultural event will be held at the headquarters of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with Peoples.

The Palestinian doctor who graduated in Cuba, Watan Jamil Al-Abd, explained on the Mesa Redonda television program that the activity will be the appropriate space for young people from his country and other nationalities to join the call to turn March 30 into International Children’s Day. Land of Palestine.

He stressed that this date revives and confirms the Palestinians’ conviction and adherence to their land. He pointed out that “Palestine today shows its resistance and love for the land, despite the bombing, death and pain.”

Al-Abd pointed out that since the victory of the revolution, Cuba has expressed its full support for the Palestinian cause, and this fact, in his opinion, is reflected in all the students and doctors from his country who trained in the Caribbean country.

Palestinian Land Day commemorates March 30, 1976, when Palestinians living in Arab cities inside Israel organized a general strike and demonstrated against the Israeli government's control of their land.

On that day, six Palestinians were killed by Israeli police, and many more were injured.

Amid international rejection and collusion with the United States, Israel has killed more than 32,000 Palestinians since the beginning of the aggression on October 7.

Cuba calls for peace in those territories on the basis of the establishment of two states, allowing the people of Palestine to exercise their right to self-determination and to have an independent and sovereign state within the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem. capital.

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