The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today demanded that the Biden administration take concrete actions to stop Israeli’s genocide after the United Nation’s top humanitarian aid official said, “the entire population of North Gaza is at risk of dying.”
Joyce Msuya, Acting Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator said:
“What Israeli forces are doing in besieged North Gaza cannot be allowed to continue. Hospitals have been hit and health workers have been detained. Shelters have been emptied and burned down. First responders have been prevented from saving people from under the rubble. Families have been separated and men and boys are being taken away by the truckload. Hundreds of Palestinians have reportedly been killed. Tens of thousands have been forced to flee yet again.”
Save the Children’s Alexandra Saieh said: “No military goal could justify the mass-scale slaughter of civilians that we see in Gaza now every single day.”
UN human rights chief Volker Türk said: “As we speak, the Israeli military is subjecting an entire population to bombing, siege and risk of starvation.”
Yesterday, CAIR said the Israeli government’s latest slaughter of babies and children in Gaza should “shock the conscience” of Biden administration officials supporting the genocide in Gaza.
Israel has already slaughtered almost 43,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, and has destroyed most of the civilian infrastructure and forcibly displaced almost all of the civilian population, and imposed forced starvation.
In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said:
“The Biden administration must listen to those who actually care about the systematic extermination of an entire population using American taxpayer-funded weapons and with the unceasing and uncritical support of administration officials who do not seem to care about the far-right Israeli government’s violations of U.S. and international law. This administration’s support for and complicity with genocide must end and the Palestinian people must be acknowledged as human beings worthy of life and dignity.”
Last week, CAIR condemned the latest massacres by the far-right Israeli government in Gaza and Lebanon and also condemned reports that Israeli forces are putting numbers on detained Palestinian men. The Washington, D.C., based Muslim civil rights organization also condemned the shipment of weapons to Israel by the United States and United Kingdom through an air bridge in which over 6,000 aircraft were used in a year to carry out the genocide.
Earlier last week, CAIR called on the Biden administration to address whether the Israeli government’s reported plan for U.S. intelligence operatives and mercenaries to take control of aid distribution in Gaza and set up mass, walled-off internment camps for Palestinians is true.
The reported use of American personal in these camps comes after Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu rejected a U.S. request to publicly repudiated the so-called “General’s Plan” in which every human being left in northern Gaza would be either starved or killed.
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