The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the Biden administration to demand that Israel’s far-right government end its attack on hospitals in Gaza housing hundreds of patients and displaced civilians.
Israel is attacking near Khan Younis’s three main hospitals – al-Aqsa, Nasser and al-Amal – making it difficult for civilians to flee and targeted a UN building in which some 800 people sought shelter.
Doctors Without Borders said its staff was trapped inside Nasser Hospital, along with some 850 patients and thousands of displaced people.
Israel has now killed almost 26,000 Gazans, mostly women and children, while Israeli media “mostly keep Gaza’s human toll out of sight.” Israeli strikes on Khan Younis city killed at least 210 people killed over the past 24 hours.
In a statement, CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said:
“When will the Biden administration acknowledge the daily slaughter of civilians and attacks on medical and United Nations facilities that we are all witnessing in real time? President Biden must immediately demand that Israel’s far-right government stop its campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza, secure a ceasefire, and pursue a just and lasting peace by ending the occupation.”
Mitchell added that yesterday, CAIR condemned the latest of what it calls the “Israeli war crime of the day,” the murder of a Gaza civilian in a group holding a white flag and holding their hands up in a so-called Israeli “safe zone.”
CAIR recently condemned other “Israeli war crimes of the day” in Gaza, including eyewitness reports of the execution of civilians by Israeli forces, looting of archeological artifacts, reports of the “torture” of detainees and the ongoing desecration of cemeteries.
He noted that Israel’s far-right government has systematically destroyed religious (1,000 mosques destroyed), historical, educational, institutional, and cultural sites in Gaza.
CAIR condemned the killing of a Palestinian-American teen by the forces of the far-right Israeli government in the occupied West Bank.
CAIR previously called on the Biden administration to condemn the far-right Israeli government’s targeted murder of journalists in Gaza.
An investigation by the Committee to Protect Journalists reports at least 83 journalists and media workers were among the almost 25,000 people killed by Israel in Gaza since the war began.
CAIR also called on President Biden to condemn Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and take action after he admitted to being opposed to the existence of a Palestinian state in any scenario.
CAIR condemned what it called the latest “Israeli war crimes of the day,” including a new call for ethnic cleansing of Gaza by a top Israeli government official, the demolition of a Gaza university, attacks near a Gaza hospital, video of Israeli troops mocking Palestinian suffering, and Israeli actions forcing women to give birth in the streets.
SEE: CAIR Condemns ‘Israeli War Crimes of the Day,’ Including New Call for Ethnic Cleansing of 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