Total Rejection of the Military Occupation Plan for Gaza by War Criminal Netanyahu

August 11, 2025 from Havana

On Friday, August 8, after 10 hours of deliberations, the Israeli Security Cabinet approved war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan for the complete military occupation of Gaza. While the world demands a ceasefire, the immediate entry of humanitarian aid through UN agencies, and the opening of border crossings, Netanyahu is extending the war for 10 more months, demanding the surrender of weapons by the resistance and the establishment of a “foreign civilian government” that does not recognize the legitimate government of Hamas in Gaza and the Palestinian Authority. A government of Zionism and imperialism.

To deceive the world and hide the crime, since the beginning of the genocide, Israel has banned the entry of foreign press, killed 237 journalists, and yesterday killed Mohammed Qreiqea, Anas Al-Sharif, Ibrahim Zaher, Moamen Aliwa, and Mohammed Noufal, five journalists, the entire Al Jazeera team in Gaza. Israeli Zionism has used all the tools of new technologies and artificial intelligence as weapons of war and espionage to commit selective and mass murders, the victimization suffered during the Nazi Holocaust to justify the occupation and ethnic cleansing, the distorted use of language in phrases such as “security control” in a vain attempt to hide the brutal total occupation of Gaza and the genocide.

After 22 months of daily massacres and more than 500 days of closed border crossings, they do not even allow the transfer of seriously ill patients. More than 61,000 bodies have arrived at hospitals, while tens of thousands lie under the rubble and the number of wounded exceeds 153,000. The vast majority are children, women, the elderly, and young people from the civilian population.

According to the latest information from the Gaza Government Office, 140,000 tons of explosives dropped by Israel with the support and weaponry of the United States have razed entire cities; they not only bomb, but also use bulldozers and private contractors to destroy homes. Prayer centers, schools, and hospitals have been wiped out. Eighty-eight percent of the Gaza Strip has been destroyed. Its beautiful universities, mosques, churches, cinemas, and theaters no longer exist. Entire neighborhoods, buildings, government headquarters, UN agencies, food processing centers, water wells, towers, and refugee camps are being brutally attacked, burned, and bombed. One million nine hundred thousand Palestinians have been displaced.

And most perverse of all: the use of hunger as a weapon of war, the replacement of the historic UN agency UNRWA—the agency for Palestinian refugees—by a private agency controlled by Israel and its partner in crime, the United States, is causing a humanitarian catastrophe in which Palestinians seeking food are selectively shot, are humiliated and have food thrown at them, creating chaos that has claimed the lives of several hundred people. The insufficient food trucks have been attacked and looted by Zionist settlers, and 780 members and volunteers of humanitarian aid teams have been killed. Gaza needs 22 million tons of food and aid, but the occupation has only allowed 14 percent of the 8,400 trucks needed to enter, with only 1,210 entering in the last 14 days; 222 Palestinians have died of starvation, including 100 children. The so-called “safe corridors” on Saladin and Rashid streets, open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. for the passage of forcibly displaced persons, are another death trap. Entire families have been hit by bullets, drones, and missiles fired from Israeli checkpoints. Others have been forced to leave all their belongings behind, while still others have been forced to walk for miles with their arms raised. Dozens of bodies lie in the streets, most of them children and women.

This atrocious genocide, which tears at the soul of humanity, could not be committed with impunity, without contempt for the global outcry demanding an immediate ceasefire, the entry of humanitarian aid, and the opening of border crossings.

The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel must end the occupation. Since March 2025, Palestine has been recognized as a state by 147 of the 193 countries that are full members of the UN General Assembly, more than 76 percent of its members, with other important countries such as France, the United Kingdom, and Canada set to do so in September. This represents the majority of the world’s population.

Together with the heroic Palestinian people, we reject with all our strength Israel’s plan to occupy Gaza. We denounce colonialism, apartheid, and ethnic cleansing as crimes against humanity that must be tried and condemned by international courts.

The terrorist state of Israel abandoned the negotiating table on every occasion, when only a moment remained to reach an agreement that would have made possible the essential ceasefire for the release of Israeli hostages and their exchange for sick and underage prisoners in Israeli dungeons. The war criminal Netanyahu and his fascist cabinet never cared about the lives of the hostages or about reaching an agreement that would pave the way for peace. The genesis of Zionism and its Hitler-style desire for total expansion have been exposed before the eyes of the world. The Hebrew people never forgot or forgave the crimes of Nazism. Nor will they forget the holocaust being committed today against the PA by the terrorist government of Israel. It will not be in the name of the Jewish people, nor of supposedly divine precepts. The crime of Israeli Zionism and its right arm, Yankee imperialism, is committed with impunity granted through brutality and the most despicable methods of dehumanization and perversion. Like the Nazi murderers, they will be tried and condemned by international courts.

We unreservedly support the courageous Palestinian resistance, which is assisted by internationally recognized law, against occupation and extermination, to defend their sovereignty, their sacred and ancestral land and their people, with whatever weapons they have in the unequal battle of David against Goliath, with those of their immense millenary culture, with the spirit of sacrifice of their martyrs and political prisoners, with the voices of their men, women and children who want to live in peace, justice and dignity.

There are no leaders more reviled than the war criminals Netanyahu and Trump. Israel and the United States are the terror that threatens the peace of humanity.

We will not recognize any government other than that decided by the sovereign will of the Palestinian people, their organizations, and their authorities, both in Gaza and in the occupied West Bank.

The world embraces Palestine and its noble people. Together with Palestine we rise up, with Palestine we resist, we will never abandon it because, like Cuba, Palestine is humanity.

Let the cry for Palestine’s right to exist as a sovereign state be heard loud and clear, with mobilization in the streets around the world.

Ceasefire! Allow all humanitarian aid to enter through UNRWA!

Total boycott of Israel! Break off trade and diplomatic relations!

Repudiate the military occupation of Gaza!

Long live a free Palestine from the river to the sea!

International Committee for Peace, Justice, and Dignity

August 11, 2025

Source: Cuba en Resumen