The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned the Israeli occupation’s slaughter of 34 more Palestinians near food concentration points as “sociopathic.”
At least 34 Palestinians were killed today by Israeli forces on the roads leading to Israeli- and U.S.-supported food distribution centers in the Gaza Strip, the local Health Ministry said.
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In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said:
“Setting up so-called food and aid concentration points for starving people only to mow them down when they try to access food is nothing short of sociopathic. Every day, the Israeli government manages to outdo itself in atrocities while our government continues offering support. This must end. The Israeli government must be stopped before it completes its campaign of extermination in Gaza and engulfs the entire world in the flames of war.”
Yesterday, CAIR said the daily massacres at Israeli concentration sites in Gaza, the forced displacement of the population to receive scraps of food at those sites and intentional destruction of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure are designed to carry out Israel’s campaign of ethnic cleansing.
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CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@cair.com; CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw, 202-742-6448, rmccaw@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