The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today asked “when will the world act to stop Israel’s genocide” after another of the daily Israeli massacres of starving Palestinian men, women and children forced to seek food at U.S.-back concentration sites in Gaza because of a campaign of intentionally-imposed starvation.
More than 30 Palestinians seeking food were among at least 60 people slaughtered Friday by Israeli forces.
SEE: At least 35 killed in new Israeli attack on Gaza aid seekers
In a statement, CAIR said:
“Another day, another massacre of Palestinian women, children and men who are forced- through a campaign of intentionally-imposed starvation – to seek scraps of food with which to feed their families. When will the world act to stop Israel’s genocide? When will international leaders take up their duty to stop the daily Israeli crimes against humanity and to allow the Palestinian people to live in peace and freedom?”
Yesterday, CAIR condemned the world’s silence after yet another Israeli massacre of starving Palestinians.
Earlier this week, CAIR said Israeli food concentration sites in Gaza are in fact “human slaughterhouses” after Israeli tanks fired into a crowd trying to get aid from trucks, killing at least 59 people.
Washington, D.C., based CAIR also condemned the Israeli occupation’s slaughter of 34 Palestinians near food concentration points as “sociopathic.”
CAIR recently said the daily massacres at Israeli concentration sites in Gaza, the forced displacement of the population to receive scraps of food at those sites and intentional destruction of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure are designed to carry out Israel’s campaign of ethnic cleansing.
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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