Mr. President,
The human rights of 2.2 million people in Gaza and other occupied Palestinian territories continue to be flagrantly violated.
They remain condemned to hunger and forced displacement as a result of the acts of genocide, extermination, and ethnic cleansing carried out by the Zionist regime, which has the military and financial supplies, as well as the impunity guaranteed to it by the Government of the United States and the complicity of others. We are facing a systematic strategy of collective punishment and annexation.
Israel violates all United Nations resolutions, including those adopted by this Council. It also breaches its obligations as an Occupying Power under the Fourth Geneva Convention. Those responsible must be held accountable for their actions.
Cuba reiterates its solidarity with the Palestinian people and with their just cause for freedom, independence, and an end to the Zionist occupation.
A comprehensive, just, and lasting solution to the conflict requires, unequivocally, the exercise of the Palestinian people's right to self-determination and to establish their own independent and sovereign State, within the pre-1967 borders, with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The General Assembly must unequivocally and without further delay declare Palestine's right to become a Member State of the United Nations.
Thank you very much.