Muslim civil rights group also condemned Israeli war crimes after reports of limb amputations of Palestinian prisoners due to torture, use of AI software to carry out mass slaughter
The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said President Biden must act after a group of officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) warned that the Israeli-imposed and U.S.-backed starvation in Gaza is “unprecedented in modern history” and that the pace of hunger-related deaths will “accelerate in the weeks ahead.”
That warning to the Biden administration was in a cable drafted by officials USAID and sent to the White House’s National Security Council, State Department offices and diplomats abroad.
SEE: ‘Unprecedented In Modern History’: U.S. Aid Experts Warn Gaza Likely Already Experiencing Famine – HuffPost
Oxfam is reporting that the amount of food available to people in the north of Gaza is less than 12 percent of the recommended daily 2,100 calorie intake needed per person, with people surviving on 245 calories a day.
CAIR is also condemning the torture that is reportedly resulting in the amputation of limbs of Palestinians held in Israeli detention centers and Israel’s reported use of AI software to carry out its mass slaughter in Gaza.
The Israeli media outlet Haaretz reports: “’Two prisoners had their legs amputated due to handcuff injuries,’ says a doctor at an Israeli prison facility, who describes deplorable conditions and violations of medical ethics and the law in a letter to ministers, attorney general.”
In a letter to senior Israeli officials, the Israeli doctor said detainees at the Sde Teiman detention center are shackled by all four limbs 24 hours a day, causing severe injuries to their hands and legs that often require amputation. The doctor also reported that detainees are regularly blindfolded, fed only through a straw, denied toilet access, and undergo major surgeries without proper medical care.
Israel has killed more than 33,037 people in Gaza, with children making up about 40 percent of those killed. Sevent-five percent of the population have been displaced. Children are dying of starvation in northern Gaza, World Health Organization chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus says. More than 60 percent of housing units have been destroyed, along with 392 education facilities, 123 ambulances and 184 mosques.
To carry out that mass slaughter, Israeli is reportedly using an artificial intelligence (AI) tool known as “Lavender” to identify targets.
Israel’s +972 Magazine, reports: “The Israeli army has marked tens of thousands of Gazans as suspects for assassination, using an AI targeting system with little human oversight and a permissive policy for casualties, +972 and Local Call reveal.”
“We know that President Biden has not acted in any meaningful way to protect Palestinian civilians from Israel’s mass slaughter, forced starvation, ethnic cleansing, and genocide, but perhaps he will take some action based on this strong warning from his administration’s own experts who are warning of the ‘unprecedented’ famine that is already killing children in Gaza,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. “The Biden administration must act to end forced starvation, the torture of prisoners and the targeting of a population using computer-generated kill lists.”
Yesterday, CAIR joined 80 advocacy Muslim, Palestinian, and allied organizations representing communities across the United States to send a letter to President Biden that objects to his recent decisions to both transfer more deadly weapons to the Israeli government and falsely certify that the Israeli government’s war on Gaza complies with U.S. law.
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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