Rafah ‘Safe Zone’ Massacre Exposes Israel’s Brutality, Washington’s Complicity
This is according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the United States’ largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization.
On Tuesday, 21 Palestinians were killed, at least 12 of them women, in new Israeli strikes on tents housing displaced people in the designated humanitarian area in Mawasi in western Rafah.
Israel has slaughtered more than 36,000 Palestinians in Gaza, mostly women and children. Some two million Palestinians have been forcibly displaced.
In a statement on Tuesday, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said:
“Day after day, massacre after massacre, and the Biden administration continues to ship the bombs to the far-right, openly genocidal Israeli government that it uses to slaughter Palestinian children, women, medical personnel, journalists, international aid workers, and the sick and elderly, and continues to shield Israel from international accountability. This genocidal brutality, which is being exposed daily by piles of charred and dismembered Palestinian civilians, must stop.
“Sadly, because of President Biden’s insistence on sending more bombs to enable Netanyahu’s war crimes in Rafah, this is now as much an American genocide as it is an Israeli genocide.”
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Ob Monday, CAIR joined state and national Muslim leaders for a news conference at the ICNA-MAS Convention in Baltimore, Maryland, to respond to an earlier Israeli massacre of dozens of Palestinian civilians in a Gaza “safe zone.”
On Sunday, CAIR condemned the massacre of at least 45 Palestinian civilians in an Israeli airstrike on Rafah in the Gaza Strip that hit tents for displaced people. Horrific videos posted online show bodies burned to a crisp and a beheaded baby.
On Friday, CAIR applauded a ruling by the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) in the Hague ordering Israel to halt its attacks on Rafah in Gaza.
Earlier this year, CAIR expressed its support for South Africa’s request to the ICJ to adopt emergency measures to protect Palestinian civilians after the Israeli attack on Rafah and its threats of depopulation and further attack on the city.
In December of last year, CAIR welcomed the launch of a case by South Africa in the United Nations’ top court accusing Israel of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.
This week, CAIR welcomed the recognition of the state of Palestine by Norway, Ireland and Spain, and called on the Biden administration to stop blocking that nation’s full United Nations membership.
Source: Cair.com
