The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, condemned an Israeli “triple tap” strike on paramedics in the southern Lebanese town of Mayfadoun.
A team from the Islamic Health Association was reportedly attacked as it tried to rescue people from the site of an Israeli attack in the town of Mayfadoun, in the Nabatieh region on Wednesday. One paramedic was killed and a second remains missing.
When a second team went to the site, it too was attacked, and three paramedics were reportedly wounded. Then, two ambulances of the Risala Scout Association and the Nabatieh Ambulance Service, which had been deployed to the site, were also attacked. Two paramedics were killed and three others wounded.
SEE: Israeli triple-tap strike kills three paramedics in Lebanon, officials say
In a statement, CAIR Deputy Executive Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said:
“The genocidal Israeli government is using the same barbaric tactics they used in Gaza in Lebanon – double and triple tap attacks on civilians and health care workers, destroying civilian infrastructure, and displacing entire villages of people only to bomb them in their refugee camps. Israel has driven millions into untold suffering, destroyed entire nations, set the entire Middle East aflame, and is threatening to plunge the entire world into disaster as a result of its actions. It must be stopped immediately.”
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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