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 attacks on starving civilians in Gaza seeking humanitarian aid.
Video shows Israeli forces opening fire at thousands of starving people in the southwest of Gaza City as they attempted to get food. Israel has repeatedly attacked civilians seeking aid. A UN official is warning of the man-made disaster in Gaza as aid deliveries are being blocked by Israel as part of its campaign of genocide and ethnic cleansing.
Israel has already killed almost 30,000 people, mainly women and children, in Gaza.
In a statement, CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said:
“The tactic of starving Palestinian civilians to death is a genocidal war crime and Israel’s far-right government must be held accountable for the unprecedented human catastrophe it has created in Gaza. President Biden must stop enabling the Netanyahu government before it kills thousands of more innocent men, women and children with U.S. support.”
Yesterday, CAIR condemned both the death of a Palestinian baby from starvation intentionally imposed by Israel’s far-right government and the Israeli torture of a Palestinian doctor in Gaza.
On Friday, CAIR called on the Biden administration to repudiate the Israeli government’s post-war plan for the de facto annexation of Gaza.
Last week, CAIR called on the Biden administration to condemn comments made by Israeli Minister of Social Equality & Women’s Advancement May Golan in which she said she is “personally proud of the ruins of Gaza, and that every baby, even 80 years from now, will tell their grandchildren what the Jews did.”
CAIR recently called on House Speaker Mike Johnson and Democratic leader Hakim Jefferies to publicly repudiate Representative Andy Ogles (R-TN) and to issue a formal censure for his recent statement that “We should kill them all” in reference to Palestinian children in Gaza.
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CAIR also called on the Biden administration to address reported sexual violence, arbitrary detention and abuse by the forces of the far-right Israeli government targeting Palestinian women and girls.
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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