The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said that “history will long remember the Western world’s indifference to the forced starvation, ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza.”
CAIR’s statement comes as at least 85 Palestinians were slaughtered by Israel while desperately seeking food to feed their intentionally-starved families, the highest death toll of aid-seekers in over 21 months of Israeli genocide.
SEE: Officials say 85 Palestinians seeking aid are killed in Gaza as Israel widens evacuation orders – Associated Press
Reports indicate some starving aid seekers were gassed to death. Other reports tell of women collapsing in the street and babies dying due to Israel campaign of forced starvation of the Gaza’s population. At least 18 people died due to starvation and malnutrition within the last 24 hours.
SEE: ‘We dream of bread’: Gaza’s streets echo with hunger as bodies collapse from starvation
The World Food Program said: “Nearly 1 in every 3 people in Gaza is not eating for days at a time.”
Israel today also ordered more forced displacement in its campaign of ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said:
“The escalating massacres of starving Palestinian women, children and men murdered with U.S.-supplied weapons and with the complicity of our government as they desperately search for food to feed their families is not only a human tragedy, it is also an indictment of a Western political order that has enabled this genocide through inaction and indifference.
“Western governments cannot claim ignorance. They are watching in real time as innocent civilians are intentionally starved, forcibly displaced, and slaughtered — and are choosing to do nothing. History will long remember the Western world’s indifference to the forced starvation, ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza.”
Yesterday, CAIR condemned what it called the world’s “normalization” of daily Israeli massacres after Israel again slaughtered at least 36 starving people seeking food at a U.S.-backed aid concentration site in Gaza.
Hundreds of starving people have been slaughtered and thousands more have been wounded while desperately trying to access food during Israel’s campaign of forced starvation in Gaza. Israel has slaughtered more than 58,000 people in Gaza – and possibly many more – mostly women and children.
SEE: UN warns mass starvation is becoming ‘normal’ in Gaza
Last week, CAIR called for a United Nations and International Criminal Courtwar crimes investigation of Israel’s alleged use of drones bombs packed with nails to target civilians in Gaza.
CAIR also called for the immediate release of Palestinian Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya, who was seized by Israeli forces in Gaza and now faces torture and abuse. Abu Safya is held in solitary confinement at the notorious Ofer military prison, which – like other Israeli detention centers – has a well-documented history of torture and abuse of detainees.
SEE: Gaza doctor Abu Safiya given ‘two spoonfuls of rice a day’ in Israeli jail
Also last week, CAIR said a deadly Israeli attack on the only Catholic church in Gaza shows “Israel’s brutal disregard for religious sites and the indiscriminate nature of its genocide.”
CAIR also called on Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Attorney General Pam Bondi to launch a full U.S. investigation into the killing of Florida resident and U.S. citizen Sayfollah (“Saif”) Musallet, who was reportedly beaten to death on July 11 by a mob of illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank.
Also this week, CAIR condemned the massacre of some 20 starving Palestinians after guards of the U.S.-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) reportedly threw stun grenades and used pepper spray at an aid concentration site.
CAIR’s mission is to protect civil rights, enhance understanding of Islam, promote justice, and empower American Muslims.
La misión de CAIR es proteger las libertades civiles, mejorar la comprensión del Islam, promover la justicia, y empoderar a los musulmanes en los Estados Unidos.
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