Cuban President Miguel Díaz-Canel (center) and First Lady Lis Cuesta march in a pro-Palestine demonstration in Havana, Cuba, November 23, 2023. Photo: AP.
The Cuban government announced that it has joined, as a third-party State, South Africa’s lawsuit at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) against ‘Israel’ for the genocide of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
On Friday, June 21, the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced through an official statement that the Cuban government decided to join the case because “Israel has flagrantly violated international norms with its actions in the illegally occupied Palestinian territory of the Gaza Strip.”
#Cuba ha decidido participar como Tercer Estado en demanda de Sudáfrica contra Israel ante la @CIJ_ICJ y argumentará al principal órgano judicial de @ONU_es la transgresión de la Convención sobre el Genocidio.
Hay que poner fin a la masacre contra el pueblo de #Palestina. https://t.co/PCbeoy9Oiy
— Bruno Rodríguez P (@BrunoRguezP) June 21, 2024
The statement added that the main objective of the case is “to stop the atrocities against the Palestinian people resulting from Israel’s disproportionate and indiscriminate use of force.”
Cuba also criticized the “total impunity” with which the Zionist regime acts, “protected by the complicity of the US government,” which allows the occupation entity to “ignore its obligations as an occupying power.”
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“We must put an end to the massacre of the Palestinian people,” Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodríguez wrote in an X post.
With this announcement, Cuba joins four other Latin American countries, namely, Chile, Nicaragua, Colombia and Mexico, that have joined the genocide case against the Zionist entity brought before the ICJ by South Africa last year.
(RT)
Translation: Orinoco Tribune
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