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CUBA FACTS

Issue 44- January 2009

    


Cuba Facts is an ongoing series of succinct fact sheets on various topics, including, but not limited to, political structure, health, economy, education, nutrition, labor, business, foreign investment, and demographics, published and updated on a regular basis by the Cuba Transition Project staff.

 

 The Cuban Government’s View of the Israeli Incursion into Gaza

     

  • The spiral of violence [in Gaza] is encouraged by the threatening and warlike rhetoric of the Israeli leaders…They squander away efforts to achieve a cease fire. Granma,* December 25, 2008.

  • Israeli air attacks are focused on densely populated areas. Granma, December 27, 2008.

  • The Jewish surprised aggression has produced a veritable carnage. Granma, December 27, 2008.

  • Cuba voices its firmest condemnation of this genocidal act by the Israeli government, and urges the international community to condemn this massacre and mobilize to demand an immediate end to these attacks on the Palestinian civilian population. Cuban government statement, Juventud Rebelde,** December 28, 2008.


  • Israel’s aggression against the highly populated and impoverished Gaza, illegally occupied by Tel Aviv, has produced 350 deaths and more than 1,600 wounded. Granma, December 29, 2008.


  • The ineffective international response to stop the Israeli massacre has produced frustration and desperation among the 1.5 million residents of Gaza. Granma, December 30, 2008.

  • On January 7, 2009 General Raul Castro hosted in Havana Iranian Special Envoy, Ali Akbar Mehrabian. Gen. Castro reiterated Cuba’s condemnation of “the treacherous aggression against Gaza.” Gen. Castro discussed the actions being taken by the Non-Aligned Movement, which Cuba presides, “to reject the crimes perpetuated by the aggressor [Israel] against the Palestinian population.” Granma, January 8, 2009.

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*Granma is the official newspaper of Cuba’s Communist Party; Cuba’s ruling and only party.

**Juventud Rebelde is the official newspaper of the Youth Organization of Cuba’s Communist Party.

 

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