The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said President Biden either “doesn’t know or doesn’t care” about the Israeli government’s daily massacres of Palestinian children after the administration failed to condemn the latest Israeli bombing of Palestinian civilians, this time an airstrike on a school sheltering displaced persons in Gaza City that killed at least 17 people, most of them children.
SEE: Israeli airstrikes on two Gaza shelters kill 17, says Gaza Civil Defense – CNN
At least three bombs were dropped on Al-Huda and Al-Hamama schools as rescuers were trying to help people escape from under the rubble. An Al Jazeera reporter stated: “This is the tactic that the Israeli military has widely used in the past. The military drops a bomb that partially destroys facilities, namely evacuation centers, killing a number of people, and then within a few minutes, it drops other bombs.” [NOTE: This is known as a “double tap,” when attackers seek to maximize casualties among rescuers.]
In a statement, CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said:
“After nine months of horror, one of two things must be true: either President Biden doesn’t know about the war crimes the Israeli government is perpetrating against Palestinian children every day or he knows but just doesn’t care about dead Palestinian children. Nothing else explains why the administration refuses to even condemn attacks like today’s school massacre.
“Either way, the status quo of silence and more weapons for Netanyahu is unacceptable. The Biden administration’s complicity in genocide must end before the Israeli government blows more children to pieces with U.S. weapons.”
Last week, CAIR 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.
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.
Washington, D.C., based 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 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.
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