Arab and Muslim Americans demand Biden condemn Israel’s massacre in Rafah and the killing of Palestinian American teens.
President Joe Biden departs the White House and stops to talk to the press on his way to an event in Miami, Florida, on January 30, 2024.President Joe Biden departs the White House and stops to talk to the press on his way to an event in Miami, Florida, on January 30, 2024.President Joe Biden is quietly dispatching officials to Arab and Muslim communities in United States in an attempt at damage control whileNow, Muslim advocates across the U.S.
The teens are among at least 370 Palestinians killed by settlers and Israeli forces in the West Bank since the war began,that more than 12,300 children and young teens have been killed in Israel’s war on Gaza. Thousands more are maimed, injured or imprisoned.that children are among the victims of Israeli airstrikes on Rafah’s squalid tent cities filled with families that already fled other parts of Gaza, and the number of casualties is likely to rise as more bodies are pulled from the rubble.
“Gaza City is going to turn into camps; there is not a city anymore, it is a city of ghosts — literally,” Zidiah said. Facing widespread protests at home, Biden administration officials were dispatched to Michigan last week to meet with Arab and Muslim community leaders who are fuming over Biden’s handling of the war. The meeting came three months after prominentJon Finer, deputy national security adviser, told the community leaders that the administration realizes it “misstepped” in the course of responding to Gaza’s humanitarian crisis.
The Biden administration did not issue a condemnation of Israel or its military’s actions by the time this article was published. Asked if there would be any consequences for Israel or any change to U.S. policy over what Biden has described as “over the top” military tactics and “indiscriminate bombing,” White House National Security Communications Adviser John Kirby told reporters on Monday that he would not “engage hypotheticals.