The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on U.S. and international medical groups to condemn Israel’s burning of Kamal Adwan Hospital, one of the last hospitals in northern Gaza, and the murder of five members of its medical staff.
According to Associated Press, Israeli soldiers “forced medical personnel and patients to assemble in the hospital yard and remove their clothes amid the winter temperatures.” Online video shows Palestinians, stripped to their underwear, being marched through the ruins of northern Gaza. The director of the hospital has reportedly been arrested for refusing to leave patients without medical care.
SEE: Israeli troops burn north Gaza hospital after forcibly removing staff and patients, officials say – AP
As many as 50 people were slaughtered in an Israeli strike on a building near the hospital. Five members of hospital staff were killed in that attack. The whereabouts and condition of some 75 patients forced from the hospital by Israeli forces is unknown.
Earlier this week, CAIR reiterated its call for the American Medical Association (AMA) to condemn Israel’s attacks on medical facilities in Gaza as three hospitals in devastated northern Gaza are under siege or face forced evacuation.
In a statement, CAIR said:
“Medical institutions and organizations in our nation and worldwide must take a principled stand against genocide by condemning Israel’s apocalyptic assault on hospitals, medical personnel and patients in Gaza. The far-right government of indicted war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu will continue its crimes against humanity until there is a level of international outrage that cannot be ignored, despite the Biden administration’s ongoing support for Israel’s crimes.”
Yesterday, CAIR condemned the “international apathy in the face of genocide” that resulted in the freezing deaths of babies in Gaza.
Also yesterday, CAIR called on U.S. media outlets and journalists to condemn Israel’s latest killings and attacks on journalists in Gaza and the West Bank.
Earlier this week, CAIR condemned comments by the U.S. Ambassador to Israel Jacob Lew dismissing a report by U.S.-backed agency on Israel’s campaign of forced starvation in northern Gaza by stating that the ethnic cleansing of the area was largely completed.
Israel has slaughtered more than 45,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children.
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