The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said the Biden administration is “normalizing war crimes” if it fails to react to the latest Israeli massacre of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.
Israeli forces killed at least 30 people, including 15 children and eight women, in an attack on a school housing injured and displaced Palestinians in Deir el-Balah in central Gaza. More than 100 people were injured in the attack. The school that was attacked also housed a field hospital.
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.
In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said:
“If the Biden administration refuses to condemn this latest massacre – just as it has been silent about the Israeli government’s many other massacres of civilians in Gaza – it will further normalize Israel’s war crimes, ethnic cleansing and genocide. President Biden and Vice President Harris should speak up about this massacre and take action to stop these crimes.
“Our nation’s government now stands almost alone on the world stage in its support for the Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza. The silence about Israel’s daily crimes against humanity must end, as must our nation’s complicity in genocide.”
Yesterday, CAIR welcomed a letter to President Biden by U.S. medical personnel who volunteered to treat victims of the Israeli genocide in Gaza demanding an arms embargo over “unbearable cruelty” inflicted by Israel.
Earlier this week, CAIR demanded that the Biden administration address reports that American doctors who volunteered in Gaza experienced treating “incinerated” and “shredded” children, including children deliberately shot in the chest and head by Israeli snipers.
CAIR also called on the Biden administration to address reports that Israel is applying a racist policy to block American physicians with Palestinian heritage from entering Gaza.
On Thursday, CAIR condemned lawmakers who applauded Netanyahu’s “racist, delusional, genocidal” address to Congress.
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