The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the Biden administration to act after UNICEF reported that almost 3,000 children have been cut off from treatment for malnutrition in southern Gaza by Israel’s ongoing offensive, which President Biden previously called a “red line.”
[NOTE: Biden had warned he would stop supplying Israel with weapons if it launched an invasion of Rafah, which it did despite the president’s threat of action. Anti-genocide protesters today interrupted a speech by President Biden.]
UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa Adele Khodr said: “Horrific images continue to emerge from Gaza of children dying before their families’ eyes due to the continued lack of food, nutrition supplies, and the destruction of healthcare services…Unless treatment can be quickly resumed for these 3,000 children, they are at immediate and serious risk of becoming critically ill, acquiring life-threatening complications, and joining the growing list of boys and girls who have been killed by this senseless, man-made deprivation.”
Israel has slaughtered more than 37,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children.
In a statement, CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper said:
“President Biden must pick up the phone, call Netanyahu, and demand that he ends Israel’s illegal and immoral forced starvation of Palestinian civilians. It is only the decades-long dehumanization of the Palestinian people that allows the Biden administration to remain inert while we see images of starving and dying children in Gaza, whose families are under attack by American-supplied weapons.”
Last night, welcomed a United Nations Security Council resolution supporting a ceasefire in Gaza.
Also yesterday, CAIR today commended Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) after he announced that he would not attend Netanyahu’s speech.
CAIR urged all Americans to use its click-and-send action alert to call on members of Congress to follow suit and boycott or protest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to a joint session of Congress on July 24th due to his openly racist views, genocidal war crimes, disrespect for the United States, and opposition to a Palestinian state.
TAKE ACTION: URGE CONGRESS TO BOYCOTT OR PROTEST WAR CRIMINAL NETANYAHU’S SPEECH TO CONGRESS
Over the weekend, CAIR condemned the “horrific massacre” of almost 300 Palestinians at the Nuseirat refugee camp in central Gaza.
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CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@cair.com; CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw, 202-742-6448, rmccaw@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, ihooper@cair.com, CAIR National Communications Manager Ismail Allison, 202-770-6280, iallison@cair.com