The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned Israel’s blocking of Palestinian mothers from accompanying their children who left Gaza to Egypt for cancer treatment.
CAIR also condemned the Biden administration’s reported planned release of 500-lb. bombs that were part of a weapons shipment to Israel put on hold in April.
In a statement, CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said:
“It is unconscionable that the Biden administration enables a genocide that separates mothers from their sick children and then sends more bombs to a genocidal government that is slaughtering those children.”
Yesterday, CAIR condemned a genocidal threat by the Israeli government to return Lebanon to the “stone age” as reports from Gaza reveal that doctors have been forced to perform amputations without anesthesia on victims of Israel’s bombing campaign.
A new report has exposed an Israeli war crime last year in which 11 Palestinian men in Gaza were executed in front of women and children. Survivors said the Israeli soldiers left a “bloodbath” in their wake. At that time, CAIR called for a United Nations investigation of the “summary executions” of unarmed Palestinian men in front of their family members.
SEE: “They Didn’t Spare Anyone”: The Story of an Israeli Massacre in Gaza | The Nation
Another report by the Norwegian Refugee Council has confirmed that 83% of Palestinians displaced from Rafah by Israel have no access to food, 52% have no access to dignified shelter, and 57% have no access to safe water.
SEE: On-the-record update #4 on situation in Gaza, Palestine
Yesterday, CAIR said a new report by Scripps News and Bellingcat shows that Israel’s genocidal campaign in Gaza is seeking to erase Palestinian culture.
SEE: CAIR Says New Report Shows Israeli Genocide Seeking to Erase Palestinian Cultural Heritage in Gaza
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CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@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