US ‘will forever be stained by its complicity’ in Gaza: CAIR
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has condemned the Trump administration for its unwavering support for Israel as starvation kills more and more Palestinians in Gaza.
“It is beyond the understanding of any moral individual how Trump administration officials can see the images of starving children and slaughtered aid seekers in Gaza without demanding an end to this man-made horror,” the US Muslim group said in a statement.
“Our nation will forever be stained by its complicity with the Israeli apartheid government’s genocide. The genocide must end and all those who carried it out or were complicit must be held accountable.”
The US provides Israel with at least $3.8bn in military assistance annually, and it has given billions more since the Gaza war began. The Trump administration also continues to shield Israel from condemnation and accountability at the UN and other international bodies.
I'm done with the US. Nice people (mostly), beautiful scenery, but now forever tainted by the monsters the people 'voted' into power. I had hopes it would get better and actually thought it was getting better with Obama (after Bush's rampage) but he didn't really deliver and then Trump, Biden, Trump. USA is done.
Amnesty International ‘reminds world there is ongoing genocide in Gaza’
Amnesty International has projected the words, “Stop genocide in Gaza”, on a hot air balloon flying above Paris this evening. The balloon carried the cauldron of the Paris 2024 non-Olympic flame on the first anniversary of the Games.
“Amnesty reminds France that there is a genocide in Gaza, that words or promises from the French authorities are not enough,” Amnesty chief Agnes Callamard wrote on X.
“We need action – quick and efficient action to put an end to the famine created by Israel, action to put an end to the genocide in Gaza, action to put an end to Israel’s impunity.”
Israeli airdrops a ‘PR stunt’
Nidal Jboor, cofounder of Doctors Against Genocide, has dismissed Israel’s airdrops of aid into Gaza as a public relations move meant to assuage growing global outcry over starvation in the enclave.
“I’m worried that Israel is playing all of us again,” Jboor told Al Jazeera. I think it’s just an attempt by Israel to deflate the mounting international pressure [amid] scenes of starving babies and children who are dying by the dozens.”
Jboor criticised airdrops as “ineffective”, limited in their reach and potentially dangerous. He argued that international humanitarian organisations that have the necessary supplies, experience and logistics to reach Palestinians at scale should be allowed to step in.
“The aid is already there, just two or three miles away” at the crossings, he said.
Fucking groundhog day forever. We already went through this whole side show with the aid drops last year. What's next, US is gonna build another 'aid' pier. Do people really have that short of a memory that anyone buys this as improving aid?
It won't stop "scenes of starving babies and children who are dying by the dozens". It will let Trump, Starmer, Carney, Merz, Meloni, Albanese etc stall for more time to bomb more Palestinians and starve more babies to death while destroying Gaza even further.
