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CAIR Calls on Pres. Biden to Demand Israeli Govt Release Ahed Tamimi, End Ethnic Cleansing in West Bank
In a statement, CAIR Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell said:
“If prominent Palestinian figures like Ahed Tamimi and her father are not safe from the Israeli government’s escalating attacks in the West Bank, no Palestinian is safe. Benjamin Netanyahu’s openly racist, far-right ministers are completely out of control. The Biden administration must call for the immediate release of Ahed Tamimi and demand an end to the Israeli government’s escalating attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank.”
Mitchell also condemned the Israeli bombing of a water reservoir in Gaza. He noted that the death toll in Gaza has reportedly surpassed 10,000.
“When the Israeli government’s top leaders declared that there are no innocent civilians in Gaza, justified cutting off water, electricity and other basic necessities because Palestinians are ‘human animals,’ embraced an ancient biblical verse about the mass slaughter of an entire city from animals to infants, demanded a million residents of northern Gaza leave their homes or face death, and announced that the aim of the bombing in Gaza was destruction rather than accuracy, they admitted their intent to commit genocide.
“Destroying the water supply, cutting off electricity, cutting off fuel – these are measures designed to kill or force out the people of Gaza. This barbarism must end. We again call on our government to demand an immediate ceasefire and end its support for the Israeli government’s genocidal campaign.”
