Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez today reiterated his country’s denunciation of Israel’s continued attacks on hospitals, schools and refugee centres in the Gaza Strip.

In his profile on the social network X, the highest representative of the island’s diplomacy affirmed that these actions are in violation of International Humanitarian Law.

Israel has killed at least 16,480 Palestinian children in #Gaza since October 2023, proof of its acts of extermination of the people of #Palestine, said the Cuban foreign minister in his message.

Cuba has reiterated its repudiation of the genocide committed by the Zionist government of Israel against the Palestinian civilian population in Gaza, since the beginning of the military onslaught last October.

The day before, President Miguel Díaz-Canel affirmed that the Israeli army’s bombardments have caused the death of more than 40,000 Palestinians, as well as around 92,000 wounded and almost two million displaced.

The day that future generations will ask why we did not stop the holocaust, we will not have a dignified and reasonable answer, said the president in X.

That day, the director general of the Government Information Office in Gaza, Ismail Al-Thawabta, detailed that among the population killed «in a clear and massive manner» were 16,480 minors.

Of these, 115 were born and died during the conflict, and a total of 35 died as a result of hunger and malnutrition, a situation that affects some 3,500 of them throughout the coastal enclave.

He also noted that more than 17,000 children are living without their parents or a parent because they were killed by the Israeli military.

Unicef recently warned about the grave humanitarian situation of the civilian population in Gaza.