2023-12-20 20:00:53
He seemed to rise with the same nobility as Mella, Rubén and José Antonio. Kevin Alejandro Jerez Medina, who is in his third year of his Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, firmly maintained that he was at the Mausoleum of the Martyrs of Artemisa to demand an end to the genocide against Palestine, “on behalf of the Faculty of Medical Sciences, the community university, of the FEU, today on its 101st anniversary.”
December 20 is not just any day, since also the illustrious author of The sleepless pupil came to the world on this day, in 1899. With an intransigence very similar to his, thousands of Artemiseños came to the most sacred altar of this land, to demand an end to Israel’s massacre in the Gaza Strip.
“For Cuban Public Health, the death of civilians and children in such an inhumane conflict becomes incomprehensible and cruel,” Jerez Medina proclaimed. According to data in official media, the number of infantrymen killed amounts to more than seven thousand since the beginning of the conflict in October.
“We could not maintain a different position from condemning the murderers, when neoliberal and imperialist aspirations are justified in bombings and blood, as an expression of the terrible criminal posture maintained in the Middle East,” he clarified.
Meanwhile, Darién Alejandro Hernández Alfonso, direct delegate of the University of Artemisa to the XII of the UJC, endorsed the Apostle’s legacy by stating that “he who lives in infamy or lives in peace, is an infamous person. Abstaining from it is not enough, he must fight against it. To see a crime calmly is to commit it.”
The intervention of the third-year law student referred to the background of the dispute, since Israel’s Declaration of Independence in 1948 and the successive confrontations with its neighbors, mainly Arabs and Muslims.
“Since the occupation began in June 1967, Israel’s relentless policies of land confiscation, illegal settlements and displacement, coupled with widespread discrimination, have inflicted immense suffering on the Palestinian population, stripping them of their fundamental rights.
“The Israeli policy of building and expanding illegal settlements in occupied Palestinian lands is one of the main examples of the systematic violation of human rights, as a result of the occupation,” said Hernández Alfonso.
With flags of Cuba and Palestine, invoking peace is an urgent duty in any corner of the world. Along with the strength of the oratory of both young people, there was also no lack of the passionate poem For this freedomby Fayad Jamís, with voice and guitar by Yaimara Domínguez and Jorge Félix Lavandera.
Yara Veliz took over the inspiration of Dany Rivera, We are Palestine and Yunisleydis Pérez with The ageby Silvio Rodríguez, an anthem of hope in times of barbarism and indifference.
Between the bombs, there is no Christmas possible. The city, considered the cradle of Christianity, today is drowning under rubble and pain. No headline from the large media consortiums pleases, or is capable of summarizing the tragedy, but I am convinced of something and I subscribe to it: “If Jesus were born today, he would be born under the ruins of a house in Gaza.”
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