The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned the reported Israeli “double tap” targeting a child in Gaza and the rescuers who came to that child’s aid.
Video posted online shows the child in the street after being wounded by Israeli fire. When other civilians came to that child’s aid, they were targeted by Israeli forces.
In a statement, CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said:
“The Israeli war crimes the world is witnessing daily in Gaza, enabled by the Biden administration, are growing steadily in their cruelty. To target a child and then bomb the rescuers of that child staggers the imagination for its level of barbarity and disregard for humanity. Because of his refusal to stop illegally arming the Israeli government and enabling its genocidal crimes, President Biden seems intent on living up to the title of ‘Genocide Joe.’”
Yesterday, CAIR said “the seemingly endless list of Israeli massacres of civilians in Gaza is the direct result of the Biden administration’s complicity with genocide.”
CAIR’s statement came after Israel slaughtered at least 28 people, including women and children, at one of the main UN-run shelters in Jabalia refugee camp. Israel has already slaughtered more than 42,000 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children.
Earlier this week, CAIR condemned the murder of the mayor of the town of Nabatieh in Lebanon by Israeli forces, a reported plan by Israel’s ruling Likud Party to establish illegal settlements in Gaza and video posted online showing Israel destroying an entire Lebanese village.
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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