The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, called on the United Nations to investigate video aired by Al Jazeera Arabic showing Israeli forces shooting dead two apparently unarmed Palestinians as they walked in an open area along the Gaza coast.
That video appears to show one of the men repeatedly waving what appeared to be a white towel. The video also shows Israeli soldiers burying the two bodies with a bulldozer.
“This heinous war crime and the many other similar crimes committed daily by the genocidal Israeli government must be investigated by the U.N. as part of the ongoing genocide, ethnic cleansing and forced starvation being impost on the Palestinian people with the complicity of the Biden administration, said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. “The forces of the far-right Israeli government seem to kill Palestinians on a whim and then treat their bodies like trash. This genocide must be stopped, not excused or supported with weapons and rhetoric.”
Earlier today, CAIR thanked a U.S. State Department official working on human rights issues in the Middle East who resigned in protest of U.S. support for the far-right Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza.
Also today, CAIR said that a new Gallup poll revealing that a majority of Americans disapprove of Israel’s military actions in Gaza represents the latest “wake-up call” for President Biden to call for an immediate ceasefire and hold Israeli officials to account for crimes against humanity in Gaza.
Yesterday, CAIR said a report by the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine stating there are “reasonable grounds” to assert that the far-right Israeli government is engaged in a genocide in Gaza should spur international action for a permanent ceasefire and justice for the Palestinian people.
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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