The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today condemned the mutilation of a Palestinian child’s body by an Israeli bulldozer.
According to video release online by the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Israeli soldiers shot a boy who was then “left to bleed for approximately an hour and a half, as the soldiers denied medics from reaching him to provide aid or even retrieve his body.”
An Israeli bulldozer “began desecrating the boy’s body, tearing open his abdomen and exposing his internal organs before dragging and throwing him on al-Far’a hill along Nablus-Tubas Road and opposite al-Far’a Valley. After withdrawal of the Israeli forces, “the boy’s body, disfigured and unrecognizable, was retrieved and transported to the Tubas Turkish Public Hospital. The boy was later identified as Majed Fida Abu Zina (17), a resident of the Camp.”
“The horrific mutilation of a child’s body by a bulldozer, after that child was reportedly left to bleed to death, should shock the conscience of all those who respect human rights and dignity,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. “This is the type of brutality that the Biden administration continues to enable and excuse.”
Earlier today, CAIR called on the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to investigate and prosecute the Israeli officials, soldiers and illegal settlers responsible for committing violent crimes against Palestinian-Americans and other Americans, including the killing of journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and Turkish-American peace activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi.
Yesterday, CAIR said the Biden administration must respond to a new report by Amnesty International saying that Israel’s “wanton destruction and collective punishment” in Gaza must be investigated as a war crime.
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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.co