The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today responded to the minimum death toll in Gaza crossing 50,000 men, women and children killed by saying that the Trump administration’s support for the Israeli government’s war crimes makes it just as complicit as the Biden administration.
More than 50,000 Palestinians have now been killed in Gaza, the territory’s Health Ministry said Sunday, as new Israeli airstrikes killed at least 26 Palestinians overnight, including several women and children. Independent agencies and international bodies have recognized that the Health Ministry’s counts are likely a severe undercount given the number of bodies trapped in rubble.
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In a statement, CAIR said:
“As the minimum death toll in Gaa crosses 50,000, the Israeli government is completely out of control because Donald Trump is the new Joe Biden: a president who supports genocide and puts Israel first in violation of federal law and disregard for the wishes of the American people. President Trump must force Netanyahu to permanently stop his self-serving genocide and accept the comprehensive ceasefire deal that that frees all captives. If President Trump wishes to be remembered as a peacemaker and not Netanyahu’s poodle, he must act before the death toll crosses 100,000.”
He noted that the medical journal The Lancet estimated that some 186,000 may have died since Israel’s invasion of Gaza.
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CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@cair.com; CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw, 202-742-6448, rmccaw@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