Joint statement by the Cuban chapter of the Network of Intellectuals, Artists and Social Movements in Defense of Humanity, the internationalist collective Juntas por Palestina and the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity to the Peoples

Words are not enough to describe the horror and fury, nor how painful are the daily killings in Palestine at the hands of the Israeli entity. Not enough to narrate the daily hell of those trapped in Gaza, nor the repudiation that deserves the inaction of governments and international institutions. They will never be able to express the consternation caused by the annihilation of an entire people.

Words are hardly enough, also, to refer to the greatness of a people that does not give up, reinventing itself every day in the midst of the grotesque exercise of extermination that the invader intends. Hunger, the bombs, the thirst, the silence of the powerful of the world have not achieved to erase their love for life and their land, the pride of resisting, despite everything.

For more than a century, the Palestinian lands have been in the sights of the colonialist powers. It will soon be eighty years since these powers decided to take their territory away from the inhabitants of Palestine, in order to found a new state there, which has not ceased its efforts to reduce their living space, confine them and annihilate them.

The imperialist plunder and racism turned into international politics are at the root of this crime, and explain the interest of the West in masking the truth and imposing an amnestic story that ignores its deep roots, and wants us to believe that it all began on October 7, 2023.

Palestine needs us, all of us: a global and popular movement that denounces the lie in any scenario, and recognizes the Israeli genocide as what it is (not a war and much less a conflict).

Palestine needs a permanently active common front:

that grants no respite to the Zionist entity, nor to its accomplices and cover-ups;

that relentlessly accuses those who supply bombs that destroy hospitals, schools and refugee camps;

that denounces those who give privileged treatment in their commercial and political relations with the aggressor;

that identifies those who benefit from and progress with the stolen goods from the Palestinian people;

unmasking any attempt to legitimize the perpetrators of genocide.

Si no fuera por el apoyo abierto o vergonzante de la mayor parte de los gobiernos occidentales más poderosos, y la complicidad de los gobiernos árabes más reaccionarios, la matanza se hubiera detenido. Pero no podemos esperar que reaccionen por su propia cuenta o confiar en la buena voluntad de alguien. No podemos, tampoco, desviar la mirada o permanecer impasibles ante el intento de borrar a un pueblo entero de la faz de la tierra. Nada puede justificar el silencio o la connivencia con el horror.

Had it not been for the open or shameful support from most of the most powerful Western governments, and the complicity of the more reactionary Arab governments, the slaughter would have stopped. But we cannot expect them to react on their own or rely on someone’s good will. Nor can we look away or remain impassive in the attempt to erase an entire people from the face of the earth. Nothing can justify silence or connivance with horror.

While we share this urgent demand, the Israeli army initiated the second phase of the operation “Gedeon’s Chariots” to occupy Gaza and controls the city gates with total impunity; the United Nations declares -belatedly, as if it would be necessary to confirm the tens of thousands of assassinations ordered by Benjamin Netanyahu- the “famine in the Gaza Strip”;

More than nine thousand Palestinian prisoners remain in subhuman conditions in the occupier Israeli’s prisons, including children, women and the sick; and the balance of the current stage of genocide amounts to over 62,000 fatalities and over 157,000 wounded.

Let us go out into the real and virtual streets, make our voices heard and make the Palestinian cause the cause of all the peoples of the world.

Long live life!

Long live the Palestinian resistance, which is the way a people has found to fight for its existence!

Long live free Palestine from the river to the sea!

August 25th, 2025

Signed by:

Abel Aguilera Vega, historiador, capítulo cubano de la Red EDH

Abel Prieto, escritor, presidente de la Casa de las Américas

Aleida Guevara March, médica internacionalista

Alicia Conde Rodríguez, historiadora y profesora universitaria

Alina González-Quevedo Monteagudo, Instituto de Neurología y Neurocirugía, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba

Antonio Guerrero Rodríguez, Héroe de la República de Cuba

Ariana López Marth, filósofa, capítulo cubano de la Red EDH

Arleen Rodríguez Derivet, periodista y conductora de radio y TV

Bassel Salem, traductor y editor revista Al-Hadaf

Beatriz Marcheco Teruel, Centro Nacional de Genética Médica, Sociedad Cubana de Genética Humana, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba

Belsis Isabel Rodríguez Carballo, comunicadora, Casa de las Américas

Carolina González López, actriz y asistente de dirección de cine

Disamis Arcia Muñoz, profesora, Facultad de Comunicación de la Universidad de La Habana

Elena María Díaz González, Universidad de La Habana, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba

Elier Ramírez Cañedo, historiador, capítulo cubano de la Red EDH

Enrique Ubieta, escritor, capítulo cubano de la Red EDH

Fernando González Llort, Héroe de la República de Cuba

Fernando Luis Rojas, editor, coordinador del capítulo cubano de la Red EDH

Georgina Alfonso González, directora del Instituto de Filosofía

Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, Héroe de la República de Cuba

Germán Sánchez Otero, diplomático y escritor, capítulo cubano de la Red EDH

Gisela Arandia Covarrubias, periodista y doctora en Filosofía

Graciela Ramírez, editora, coordinadora del Comité Internacional Paz, Justicia y Dignidad a los Pueblos

Hedelberto López Blanch, escritor y periodista

Iriana Pupo Serrano, realizadora

Isneri Talavera Bustamante, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba

Jaime Gómez Triana, crítico e investigador teatral, vicepresidente de la Casa de las Américas

Joel Suárez Rodes, activista social e internacionalista, Centro Memorial Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Jorge Ángel Hernández, escritor, capítulo cubano de la Red EDH

Juan Carlos Frómeta de la Rosa, funcionario del Partido Comunista de Cuba

Katiuska Blanco Castiñeira, escritora y periodista, capítulo cubano de la Red EDH

Llanisca Lugo González, investigadora y educadora popular, ICIC Juan Marinello

Lochy Batista Le Riverend, Instituto de Investigaciones en Fruticultura Tropical, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba

Luis Velázquez Pérez, presidente de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba

Marco González Urrutia, internacionalista chileno, Comité Internacional Paz, Justicia y Dignidad a los Pueblos

María Eliana Lanio, Universidad de La Habana, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba

Mariela Castro Espín, directora del Centro Nacional de Educación Sexual, Cenesex

Marlene Vázquez Pérez, directora del Centro de Estudios Martianos (CEM)

Marlon Ortiz Machín, Hospital Hermanos Ameijeiras, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba

Miguel Castro Fernández, Universidad Tecnológica de La Habana José Antonio Echeverría (CUJAE), Academia de Ciencias de Cuba

Miguel Zaldívar, capítulo cubano de la Red EDH

Nancy Pavón Fuentes, Centro Internacional de Restauración Neurológica, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba

Olga Fernández Ríos, investigadora del Instituto de Filosofía y vicepresidenta de la Academia de Ciencias de Cuba

Omar González, escritor, profesor y periodista cubano

Omar Valiño, teatrólogo, Biblioteca Nacional de Cuba José Martí

Rafael Hidalgo Fernández, investigador del Centro de Estudios Che Guevara

Ramón Labañino Salazar, Héroe de la República de Cuba

Raúl Capote Fernández, periodista y escritor

René González Sehwerert, Héroe de la República de Cuba

Rene Reyna González, ingeniero, capítulo cubano de la Red EDH

Rev. Raúl Suárez Ramos, Pastor Emérito Iglesia Bautista Ebenezer, director fundador Centro Memorial Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Rolando Pérez Rodríguez, Centro de Inmunología Molecular, BioCubaFarma, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba

Sergio Eguino Viera, realizador

Syara Salado Massip, comunicadora y realizadora

Tamara Velázquez López, diseñadora y editora

Tania Crombet Ramos, Centro de Inmunología Molecular, BioCubaFarma, Academia de Ciencias de Cuba

Víctor Hernández Torres, vicepresidente de la Sociedad Cultural José Martí

Yaimi Ravelo Rojas, fotorreportera y realizadora

Yolanda Alomá Reyna, psicóloga, Casa de las Américas

Institution, organizationes and movements

Centro Memorial Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Colectivo internacionalista Juntas por Palestina

Comité Internacional Paz, Justicia y Dignidad para los Pueblos