(Washington, D.C. – 10/17/2023) – The U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO), condemns in the strongest possible terms the Israeli government’s unconscionable war crime—the bombing of the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza, today, killing 500 to 800 patients, doctors, healthcare workers, and hundreds of displaced children and families seeking shelter there, with nowhere else to go.
USCMO calls on President Biden to cancel his plans to stand alongside Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu and endorse his government’s ongoing war crimes against Palestinians.
“President Biden’s support for the Israeli government’s indiscriminate mass bombing of Palestinians must end,” said Oussama Jammal, USCMO secretary general. “American Muslims and all people of conscience now call upon the President to repudiate the systematic Israeli mass slaughter of thousands of Palestinians, demand a ceasefire, and take steps to pursue a long-term peace by ending the Israeli occupation of Palestine.”
The World Health Organization (WHO) immediately condemned the deadly Israeli strike on the full Gaza hospital, which it said was “operational with patients, health- and care-givers, and internally-displaced people sheltering there.”
USMCO, along with a rising tide of international and humanitarian organizations, calls upon the U.S. and global community of nations to intervene immediately to stop the blatant, ongoing indiscriminate slaughter of Palestinian civilians in Gaza and threats of ethnic cleansing.
Our nation cannot morally stand by while the far-right Israeli apartheid government under Benjamin Netanyahu uses U.S.-provided weapons to besiege, bomb and ethnically cleans Gaza. We cannot become complicit in this annihilation.
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