The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today 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.
Israeli forces carried out a number of massacres in Khan Younis, at least 38 Palestinian civilians, including many children. Fourteen Children from one family were reportedly killed in their sleep by an Israeli air strike.
Israel strikes hit Kamal Adwan Hospital, damaging the ICU, the main water tanks and the oxygen room of the hospital. A number of babies and children inside the hospital were killed because of lack of oxygen.
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:
“If the slaughter of babies in hospitals and children in their sleep does not shock the conscience of the Biden administration officials supporting the far-right Israeli government’s genocide in Gaza, nothing will. What crime would Israel have to commit that would end the Biden administration’s complicity in genocide? There is apparently no limit to the crimes against humanity that Biden administration officials will support or excuse.”
Yesterday, 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 this 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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