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A U.S.-based pro-Muslim group blasted President Biden after he expressed “no confidence” within the Palestinian loss of life toll figures reported by Hamas.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned what they referred to as “surprising and dehumanizing” remarks made by Biden throughout a press convention with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Wednesday.
On the White Home, Biden rejected a query posed by PBS correspondent Laura Barrón-López concerning the Palestinian loss of life depend supplied by the terrorist group Hamas, saying he has “no confidence” such numbers are truthful.
“We’re deeply disturbed and shocked by the dehumanizing feedback that President Biden made concerning the nearly 7,000 Palestinians slaughtered by the Israeli authorities over the previous two weeks,” CAIR Government Director Nihad Awad mentioned in an announcement.
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President Biden delivers remarks throughout a joint press convention with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese of Australia within the Rose Backyard of the White Home on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. (Photograph by Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Publish through Getty Photographs)
“The Israeli authorities has overtly admitted that it’s focusing on civilians and civilian infrastructure. Journalists have confirmed the excessive variety of casualties, and numerous movies popping out of Gaza every single day present mangled our bodies of Palestinian ladies and kids — and full metropolis blocks leveled to the bottom. President Biden ought to watch a few of these movies and ask himself if the crushed youngsters being dragged out of the ruins of their household houses are a fabrication or an appropriate value of warfare. They’re neither,” Awad continued.
He demanded an apology from Biden and referred to as on the president to “condemn the Israeli authorities for intentionally focusing on civilians, and demand a ceasefire earlier than extra harmless folks die.”
Reached for remark, the White Home famous that the president, in his reply and in his opening remarks, reiterated the significance of avoiding any Palestinian civilian casualties. Biden has repeatedly mentioned the lack of harmless Palestinian life is a tragedy.
Throughout a joint press convention Wednesday alongside Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese, Barrón-López tried to press Biden on whether or not Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was preserving his phrase of limiting civilian casualties in Israel’s response to the horrific Oct. 7 assaults by Hamas.
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Palestinians examine the harm to destroyed buildings following Israeli airstrikes on Gaza Metropolis, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. (AP Photograph/Abed Khaled)
“Within the 18 days since Hamas killed 1,400 Israelis, the Hamas-controlled Gaza Well being Ministry says Israeli forces have killed over 6,000 Palestinians, together with 2,700 youngsters,” Barrón-López mentioned. “You have beforehand requested Netanyahu to reduce civilian casualties. Do these numbers say to you that he is ignoring that message?”
“What they are saying to me is I’ve no notion that the Palestinians are telling the reality about how many individuals are killed,” Biden responded.
Biden continued, “I am certain innocents have been killed, and it is the value of waging a warfare. I feel we must be extremely cautious… Israel must be extremely cautious to ensure that they’re specializing in going after the oldsters which are the propagating this warfare towards Israel. And it is towards their curiosity when that does not occur. However I’ve no confidence within the quantity that the Palestinians are utilizing.”
Final week, a number of information organizations rushed to report claims made by the Gaza Well being Ministry that Israel bombed al-Ahli Baptist Hospital by means of an airstrike leading to over 500 civilian casualties.
Subsequent reporting and intelligence discovered it was an explosion within the hospital’s car parking zone stemming from a misfired rocket fired by Hamas ally Islamic Jihad, leading to a loss of life toll a fraction of what Hamas had first alleged.
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CAIR, the biggest Muslim advocacy group within the nation, has confronted controversy for its alleged ties to Islamic extremist teams.
In 2009, the FBI severed its once-close ties to CAIR amid mounting proof that the group had hyperlinks to a help community for Hamas.
Native chapters of CAIR had been shunned within the wake of a 15-year FBI investigation that culminated in the conviction of Hamas fundraisers at a trial by which CAIR itself was listed as an unindicted co-conspirator.
The United Arab Emirates named CAIR a terrorist group in 2014.
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In an announcement on its web site in Might 2013, CAIR rejected strategies it had hyperlinks to terrorism.
“CAIR will not be is [sic] ‘the Wahhabi foyer,’ a ‘entrance group for Hamas,’ a ‘fundraising arm for Hezbollah,’ ‘…a part of a wider conspiracy overseen by the Muslim Brotherhood…’ or any of the opposite false and deceptive associations our detractors search to smear us with,” the group mentioned. “That we stand accused of being each a ‘fundraising arm of Hezbollah’ and the ‘Wahhabi foyer’ is a big level in demonstrating that our detractors are hurling slander, not reality. Hezbollah and the Salafi (Wahhabi) motion symbolize diametrically opposed ideologies.”
Fox Information Digital’s Joseph A. Wulfsohn and Gregg Re contributed to this report.
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