Diaz-Canel highlights Cuba's joining the lawsuit against Israel

Miguel Diaz-Canel, first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and president of the country, highlighted today Cuba's joining South Africa's lawsuit against Israel.

Cuba joins as a third State to South Africa's lawsuit against Israel for the genocide in Palestine, said the president on X.

Diaz-Canel affirmed that with the delivery before the International Court of Justice at its headquarters in The Hague (Netherlands), the Caribbean nation reaffirms its unrestricted support to Palestine and condemns any policy that undermines its right to freedom and independence.
According to the Cuban foreign ministry, the case initiated by South Africa and supported by more than a dozen countries, should be understood and heeded as an urgent call by all to stop the horrendous international crimes of genocide, against humanity and apartheid that have been and are being perpetrated against the Palestinian people.

It added that Cuba is a State Party to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide and, in accordance with the commitments assumed therein, has the obligation to carry out all possible actions aimed at preventing and punishing genocide against anyone who attempts to destroy in whole or in part a national, ethnic, racial or religious group.

In the statement, the Cuban government reiterates its deep concern with the continuous escalation of violence by Israel in the illegally occupied Palestinian territories, in flagrant violation of the United Nations Charter and international law, as well as its condemnation of the murder of civilians, including women, children, the elderly, humanitarian workers of the United Nations system, and the destruction of homes, hospitals and vital civilian infrastructure.

Local sources indicate that since the resumption of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in October 2023, the death toll has exceeded 45,000 people, while the number of injured has risen to 108,000.