The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned the far-right Israeli government’s intentional erasure of entire villages in Lebanon.
Video shows detonations in the southern Lebanese border village of Mais al-Jabal, with almost the entire village destroyed. Similar incidents of Israeli mass destruction took place in villages such as Mhaibib and Odaisseh in southern Lebanon. Israel appears to be creating an uninhabitable “buffer zone” along the southern Lebanese border.
SEE: In Lebanon, a family’s memories are detonated along with their village – Los Angeles Times
Video: Is Israel creating buffer zones in Lebanon and Gaza?
Israel has killed more than 3000 people in Lebanon.
In a statement, CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper said:
“The genocidal Netanyahu government is clearly seeking to create an uninhabitable zone in Lebanon in which all means of maintaining life are destroyed and from which its inhabitants have been ethnically cleansed, just as it has done in Gaza. These war crimes are taking place with the active complicity of the Biden administration. This complicity, and the resulting silence in the face of unimaginable suffering, must end.”
He noted that earlier today, CAIR said President Biden must act on his administration’s “30-day threat” to restrict military aid to the far-right Israeli government as Israeli authorities are reportedly allowing only 30 trucks of aid a day to enter Gaza, bringing assistance to its “lowest in a long time.”
Yesterday, CAIR condemned the far-right Israeli government’s reported flattening of whole areas of Gaza, including homes and mosques, by civilian contractors.
SEE: CAIR Condemns Flattening of Gaza Homes, Mosque by Private Israeli Companies
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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