The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on President Biden and Vice President Harris to watch the video of children being burned alive in their tents in the aftermath of an Israeli attack on a Gaza hospital courtyard and take action to force a ceasefire.
CAIR also condemned the killing of 10 Palestinians at a food distribution center.
Israeli forces attacked the Shuhadaa al-Aqsa hospital in central Gaza, where displaced Palestinians were sheltering and receiving treatment. Video shows them being burned alive in their tents as a result of the Israeli strike. Screams and wails could be heard in the footage. One Palestinian man, who appeared to be connected to an IV drip, was seen burning alive, while a woman and a young girl were also seen in the same huge blaze.
SEE: Palestinians patients burned alive as Israel bombs Gaza hospital (newarab.com)
At least 10 people have reportedly been killed by Israeli artillery fire at a food distribution center at Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.
SEE: Ten killed at north Gaza food distribution centre, Unrwa says (bbc.com)
In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said:
“President Biden and Vice President Harris must each watch the horrific video of children and other Palestinians burning alive in a hospital courtyard due to a deliberate and admitted Israeli attack on refugee tents. If seeing a child burn to death does not lead President Biden to suspend the delivery of weapons to the far-right Israeli government and force a ceasefire deal, then he is as much of a heartless war criminal as Benjamin Netanyahu.”
He noted that yesterday, CAIR demanded that President Biden personally intervene with the far-right Israeli government to stop what it called a “terminator hellscape” in northern Gaza in which drones and quadcopters roam the skies killing anything that moves while a medieval siege denies food to those left alive.
SEE: CAIR Demands President Biden Intervene to Stop ‘Terminator Hellscape’ in Northern 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