The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said the Biden administration must take action after Israeli authorities announced a new seizure of Palestinian land in the West Bank and Israeli forces again massacred civilians in Gaza.
Israeli announced the seizure of almost 2,000 acres of land near the town of Salfit in the occupied West Bank. Reports say it will be appropriated from residents of the village of Iskaka, for the use of the nearby illegal Israeli settlement of Nofim Haniya.
At least 15 people were killed and many wounded in an Israeli attack on a school in Gaza City where displaced families were seeking refuge.
CAIR also said the administration must act on more reports of torture Palestinian prisoners after 15 prisoners released by Israel in Gaza say they were beaten, deprived of food, forced to remain in harsh physical positions throughout the day, and attacked by dogs. “They broke our hands and feet,” one of the former prisoners said. The Palestinian Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs also reported that a Palestinian from Gaza held in an Israeli prison has died after being tortured. Israeli officials have defended the torture of Palestinian detainees.
In a statement, CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said:
“The Biden administration’s continued silence on the daily massacres and other war crimes in Gaza, and on the de facto annexation of the West Bank, sends the clear message to the far-right Israeli government that it will never be held accountable for any action it takes, no matter how illegal or immoral. This silence in the face of genocide must end.”
Yesterday CAIR said the continuing silence of the Biden administration on multiple reports of Israeli torture, rape and abuse of Palestinian detainees is “enabling the abuse to continue.”
CAIR also called on media outlets in the United States and worldwide to speak out after Israel killed Al Jazeera journalists Ismail al-Ghoul and his cameraman Rami al-Refee.
Earlier this week, CAIR said the Biden administration must demand an immediate ceasefire in Gaza to address the spread of diseases, including polio, resulting from Israel’s mass destruction of the civilian infrastructure.
Israel has already slaughtered almost 40,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, and displaced the vast majority of its population in a campaign of systematic destruction of homes and infrastructure. More than 1.8 million of Gaza’s 2.3 million people have been driven from their homes by Israel.
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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