The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today said a new analysis by Oxfam and Action on Armed Violence (AOAV) showing that Israel has killed more women and children in Gaza in the past year than in any other conflict over the past two decades should be a “wake-up call” to the international community.
SEE: Israel’s War on Gaza Has Killed More Women and Kids in 1 Year Than Any Other Conflict in Decades
The analysis showed “that Israeli explosive weapons struck civilian infrastructure in Gaza once every three hours on average since the war began.”
According to the analysis:
“Conservative data shows that over the past year, more than 6,000 women and 11,000 children were killed in Gaza by the Israeli military, setting a record for conflict-related deaths. By comparison, the Small Arms Survey estimates that the highest number of women killed in a single year was over 2,600 in Iraq in 2016. A report from Every Casualty Counts revealed that over the first 2.5 years of the Syrian conflict, an average of 4,700 children were killed annually. UN reports on Children and Armed Conflict over the last 18 years indicate that no other conflict has resulted in a higher number of child deaths in a single year.”
“The mass killing of women and children by the far-right Israeli government, carried out with the complicity of the Biden administration, should be a wake-up call to the international community as the world witnesses the ongoing genocide in Gaza, yet takes no concrete actions to protect civilians in Gaza or now Lebanon,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper.
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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