The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned the massacre of 40 people by Israeli forces at a UN-run school in central Gaza.
An Israeli air raid on a UN-run school sheltering displaced Palestinians in central Gaza’s Nuseirat camp killed at least 40 people, 23 of whom were reportedly women and children, according to local government officials.
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In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said:
“While Benjamin Netanyahu hems and haws about President Biden’s long-awaited ceasefire proposal, the genocidal Israeli military continues to massacre Palestinian civilians using U.S. bombs, most recently killing at least 40 civilians, 23 of whom were reportedly women and children, at a UN school overnight. President Biden’s red line has been cut to pieces and it’s long past time for him to stop funding this genocide.”
He noted that the European Union’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell Fontelles said the Israeli attack on a UN-run school in Nuseirat refugee camp “must be independently investigated, in line with the last ICJ [International Court of Justice] order”.
Yesterday, CAIR called on President Biden to condemn the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem, one of Islam’s holiest sites, by Israeli extremists ahead of the Israeli Flag Day parade.
Also yesterday, CAIR called on X (formerly Twitter) and other social media companies to shut down a secret campaign by the far-right Israeli government to pressure Congress to continue the flow of taxpayer funds for its genocide in Gaza and called on President Biden to condemn the storming of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.
Washington, D.C., based CAIR also called for international action after a report by Oxfam found that “85 percent of children did not eat for a whole day at least once in the three days before the survey was conducted” and that thousands of displaced people are being forced to use one toilet.
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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