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Two years after the brutal escalation of violence against the Palestinians in Gaza, women and men from Cuba and 12 other countries gathered in the Marianao neighborhood in Havana to express their strong solidarity with the Palestinian people. teleSUR

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00:00And also in Cuba, women and men from the island and 12 other countries

00:04gathered in the Marianao neighborhood in Havana to express their strong solidarity

00:08with the Palestinian people. We were there to share the story.

00:14International solidarity and ongoing resistance, those were the key elements that gave life to

00:20this festival. Music, poetry, arts and crafts brought together a number of Cuban organizations

00:26all ready to express their continuous support to the Palestinian cause as October marks two years

00:32of genocide in Gaza, at the hands of Israel and the complicity of many Western powers.

00:41It is a question of humanity, of knowing right from wrong and knowing what stands to take,

00:47a radical stands in favor of the end of death and also of murder.

00:52I think there is a sensibility in young Cubans, that's genetic, thanks to this revolution

01:03and its internationalism that comes out in the face of injustice and pain of this magnitude

01:09coming from the genocide that the state of Israel is committing against the Palestinian people.

01:14Internationalist activists from 13 countries took part in the event. An idea comes up time and time

01:25again, that a wound as deep as the one inflicted against the Palestinians affects us all, can be

01:31felt by all and demands global action to continue fighting for the future of humanity.

01:36First community is what gives us power and it also is what nourishes us in hard times and so we're

01:44looking at two years of a genocide, we're looking at a lot of destruction and a lot of pain and so

01:48coming together from across the world in community with food, with song, with art, we really realize

01:55that there are people around the world who care about this, who are standing up for this and who are

01:59not going to let the genocide go, go happening as it has been without fighting back.

02:05Here solidarity takes different forms, from the collective of women who have decided to shave

02:10their heads to raise awareness, to the joint reading of poetry that carries the pain and

02:15resilience of Gaza halfway across the world. Yasan is a Palestinian doctor trained in Cuba and he takes

02:23the mic to thank the warm embrace of everyone present. Once again Cuba chose in practice the

02:31revolutionary character, its revolutionary principles. Cuba has always been for justice,

02:40close to the Palestinian cause and from here we need to always raise our voices,

02:44multiply our actions in favor of peace and the sovereignty of our peoples.

02:56The words of Cuban Silvio Rodriguez and Argentine Marielena Walsh fill the air in songs that speak of

03:02hope and the importance of ongoing fighting against oppression around the world. In their voices Latin

03:08America joins Gaza in its struggle for a free Palestine from this corner of the Marianao neighborhood in Havana.

03:17Belén de los Santos, Cortella Sur English, Havana, Cuba.

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