The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today marked two years since the Oct. 7 attack in Israel and the start of the genocide in Gaza by reiterating its opposition to all violence against civilians, calling for America’s political leaders to do the same and saying that it is “long past time” for the genocide to end, for all hostages and political prisoners to go free, and for a credible path to establishing a liberated Palestinian state free from Israeli occupation or western colonial oversight.
SEE: The ruin of Gaza: how Israel’s two-year assault has devastated the territory – The Guardian
SEE ALSO: Two years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza: By the numbers – Al Jazeera
Video shows Gaza before and after two years of war – NBC
In a statement, Washington, D.C., based CAIR said:
“Two years after the October 7th attack and the start of the genocide in Gaza, we reiterate our condemnation of all violence against civilians regardless of their race, faith or nationality, and we call on our political leaders to show moral clarity by doing the same. It is long past time for the genocide in Gaza to permanently end, for all hostages and political prisoners to go free, for the reconstruction of Gaza to begin without ethnically cleansing the Palestinian people, and for a credible path to establishing a Palestinian state free from Israeli occupation or western colonial oversight. The past two years of horror should mark the last chapter, not the latest chapter, in decades of oppression, conflict and tragedy.”
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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