The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said President Trump “must stop the Netanyahu regime before it completes the genocide in Gaza” after Israel approved plans to occupy all of Gaza indefinitely, to ethnically cleanse most of the area and to concentrate the population in camps in the south where they would be fed limited rations by U.S. contractors.
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CAIR’s demand comes a well-known Israeli TV producer called for a “Gaza holocaust, gas chambers.” Elad Barashi post on X: “Good morning, let there be a Shoa (Holocaust) in Gaza.”
Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu compared Israel’s new war plans in Gaza to the 1948 mass displacement of Palestinians, known as the “Nakba.”
Israel has slaughtered more than 52,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children. Since Israel broke the ceasefire in March, its forces have murdered more than 800 Palestinian children.
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Over the weekend, CAIR said “international law no longer exists” after another Palestinian child reportedly died of Israeli-imposed – and U.S.-supported – forced starvation in Gaza.
In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said:
“The Israeli government is screaming as loudly as it can to anyone who will listen that it plans to expel the Palestinian people from Gaza and exterminate or starve any Palestinians who remain. Genocidal crimes like this have been committed many times in the past, but this is the first time a live-streamed genocide has occurred while the world either watches helplessly or actively supports the crimes against humanity. The Trump administration must stop the Netanyahu regime before it completes the genocide in Gaza, killing off countless more Palestinians and the captives still held there.”
He noted that earlier today, CAIR said Israel’s acts of inhumanity in Gaza must be stopped after video was posted online of Israeli occupation forces in Gaza blowing up a building as part of a “gender reveal” celebration.
CAIR recently welcomed the start of hearing before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) about Israel’s genocidal campaign of forced starvation in Gaza and the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination. CAIR recently called on the world community to break Israel’s “medieval siege” on Gaza that is resulting in the starvation deaths of Palestinian children.
Washington, D.C., based CAIR marked World Press Freedom Day (May 3) by calling on American journalists and media outlets to support and speak out for their colleagues in Gaza targeted for assassination by the Israeli government.
The Muslim civil rights organization also called on the Trump administration to “rein in the Israeli government’s state terrorism” after Israel bombed an area next to the presidential palace in Damascus and allegedly launched a drone attack on a ship carrying humanitarian aid to Gaza in in international waters off Malta.
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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