U.S. President Joe Biden is liable for Israel’s destruction of Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza and the civilians killed by the Israeli army through the raids, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the biggest Muslim civil rights advocacy group within the nation stated.
Israeli forces on Monday withdrew from Al-Shifa Hospital after a two-week raid that left the foremost medical complicated in ruins.
“Through his unceasing rhetorical, political and military support for the genocidal campaign being carried out by the forces of the far-right Israeli government in Gaza, President Biden bears direct responsibility for the mass slaughter, widespread destruction and torture of civilians at and near Al-Shifa Hospital,” Nihad Awad, government director of CAIR, stated in an announcement on Monday.
The official referred to as on Biden to press for an finish to what he referred to as “genocide” of Palestinians by Israel.
“He must finally act to end the genocide, ethnic cleansing, wholesale destruction of homes and infrastructure, torture, ‘kill zones,’ and forced starvation that his administration has supported and excused,” he stated.
‘Toothless, ineffective response’
The group additionally condemned the Biden administration’s “toothless, useless” response to the Israeli killing of seven World Central Kitchen (WCK) assist employees in Gaza earlier this week.
The World Central Kitchen stated its convoy was hit whereas leaving a warehouse within the southern Gazan metropolis of Deir al-Balah, the place the staff had unloaded greater than 100 tons of humanitarian meals assist. It has since paused its operations within the area.
“White House spokesman John Kirby, while condemning the massacre, refused to admit that Israel’s actions were deliberate or to change the Biden administration’s policy of sending arms to Israel,” CAIR stated in an announcement on Wednesday.
“The Biden administration needs to be ashamed of itself for its feckless, toothless and ineffective response to the Israeli authorities’s brazen, deliberate homicide of seven World Central Kitchen assist employees, together with an American citizen,” stated CAIR’s National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell.
“This Israeli government massacre of humanitarian aid workers occurred because the Biden administration has spent months making it clear that the United States will not hold Netanyahu’s government accountable for any war crimes it commits,” Mitchell added.
“By now calling as soon as once more for Israel to analyze itself and preposterously claiming that there’s no proof of the deliberate focusing on of those assist employees as they traveled in three completely different clearly-marked automobiles, the Biden administration is giving the Israeli authorities a inexperienced mild to kill many extra harmless individuals.”
Israel has waged a army offensive on the Gaza Strip since an Oct. 7 cross-border assault by the Palestinian group Hamas which claimed round 1,200 lives.
At least 32,916 Palestinians have since been killed in addition to inflicting mass destruction and displacement.
Israel has additionally imposed a crippling blockade on the Gaza Strip, leaving its inhabitants, notably residents of northern Gaza, on the verge of hunger.
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