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Fighting for Palestine is fighting for humanity 

15 October 2024
This content originally appeared on Granma - Official voice of the PCC.
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Photo: José Manuel Correa

"They ripped away my right to live in my country. Today we are all Gaza; hatred does not stop, hatred kills you," expressed a young Palestinian who is studying in Havana, determined to build a future different from the desolation generated in his own land by the Israeli genocide.Those who share that fate, despite the uncertainty, the uprooting from their native environment and the loss of relatives, showed firmness in the island's capital to send a message of resistance in a solidarity march of Cubans with the Arab nation.

Sensitivity to those who suffer a war for excessive ambitions, beyond any circumstantial vicissitude, was enough to mobilize thousands of people from both countries. Human nature should aim at kindness, declared Hiram La O Hernandez, of the Union of Young Communists (UJC) at the Technological University of Havana.As silence implies complicity, and this rebellious alligator always raised his voice in the face of injustice, everyone amplified with their attitude the words of the first secretary of the UJC National Committee, Meyvis Estévez Echavarría: "May the Palestinian flag be raised high, firm and energetic, in the arms of Cuban children and adolescents!"