By Ibrahim Hoope
Muslim civil rights group also demands that Biden administration address Israel’s ‘racist’ policy of excluding U.S. doctors of Palestinian heritage
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today welcomed a letter to President Biden by U.S. medical personnel who volunteered to treat victims of the Israeli genocide in Gaza demanding an arms embargo over “unbearable cruelty” inflicted by Israel.
That letter to Biden, first lady Jill Biden, and Vice President Kamala Harris from 45 doctors and nurses said they saw evidence of widespread war crimes using US-supplied weapons and described the “massive human toll from Israel’s attack on Gaza, especially the toll it has taken on women and children.” It asked the Biden administration to “withhold military, economic, and diplomatic support from the State of Israel.”
“Every single signatory to this letter treated children in Gaza who suffered violence that must have been deliberately directed at them. Specifically, every one of us on a daily basis treated pre-teen children who were shot in the head,” it stated.
It concluded: “Every day that we continue supplying weapons and munitions to Israel is another day that women are shredded by our bombs and children are murdered with our bullets.”
SEE: US medics who volunteered in Gaza demand arms embargo over ‘unbearable cruelty’ inflicted by Israel – The Guardian
[NOTE: Earlier this week, CAIR demanded that the Biden administration address reports that American doctors who volunteered in Gaza experienced treating “incinerated” and “shredded” children, including children deliberately shot in the chest and head by Israeli snipers.]
CAIR also called on the Biden administration to address reports that Israel is applying a racist policy to block American physicians with Palestinian heritage from entering Gaza. According to CNN, “The restrictions block the entry of US healthcare workers, and those of other nationalities, if they are of Palestinian origin or have Palestinian heritage, according to internal memos from the World Health Organization (WHO) obtained by CNN.”
“We welcome this appeal by American medical personnel who have actually treated the victims of Israel’s genocide in Gaza to end the delivery of U.S. taxpayer-funded weapons being used to kill and maim so many thousands of civilians, mostly women and children,” said CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper. “We urge the Biden administration to listen to this principled appeal and to also address the far-right Israel government’s racist policy of denying entry of American medical personnel to Gaza based on their ethnicity.”
He noted that yesterday, CAIR welcomed reports that Britain’s new government will withdraw objections to a possible International Criminal Court (ICC) arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and urged the Biden administration to follow suit. Washington, D.C., based CAIR also condemned lawmakers who applauded Netanyahu’s “racist, delusional, genocidal” address to Congress.
CAIR recently welcomed a ruling by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), or World Court, that Israel’s settlement policies and exploitation of natural resources in the occupied Palestinian territories is unlawful and must end.
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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
26 July 2024
Source: cair.com