US Muslim group CAIR condemns Israel's 'war crime' over hospital attack in Gaza

By Servet Gunerigok

WASHINGTON (AA) - The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned "Israel’s latest war crime in Gaza" after a hospital bombing that left hundreds of people dead.

"CAIR, the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, also called on the Biden administration to demand an immediate ceasefire," it said Tuesday in a statement.

It also reiterated its call for the "Biden administration to oppose Israel’s 'self-declared war crimes' after that nation’s government declared a 'siege' on the entire civilian population of Gaza and escalated a mass bombing campaign that has killed thousands, including more than 1,000 children," according to the statement.

"After this heinous war crime, the international community can no longer turn a blind eye to the suffering of the Palestinian people under a cruel campaign of killing and displacement,” said CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad, who is Palestinian-American.

More than 500 people were killed in an Israeli airstrike on Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital in Gaza on Tuesday, Health Ministry spokesman Ashraf al-Qudra told Anadolu.

Footage on social media showed corpses scattered across the hospital grounds.

According to an Anadolu reporter, thousands of Palestinians were at the hospital when the building came under bombardment.