The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today called on the Biden administration, the U.S. State Department, and elected officials in Virginia to demand that the Israeli government cease its attacks on the Jabalia refugee camp in Gaza after the mother of an American citizen, a U.S. resident, and other family members were reportedly executed in a repeat Israeli attack on their family residence, despite the family’s pleas to Israeli authorities to stop the bombing and allow the evacuation of surviving family members.

Last night, an American citizen and Virginia man of Palestinian descent informed CAIR that his family home in Gaza was bombed in an Israeli attack on the Jabalia refugee camp. There were reportedly 15 people in the house, seven of them children, including the man’s mother, a lawful permanent resident of the United States.

After the initial Israeli military strike on the family residence, the U.S. resident mother and an unknown number of relatives were reportedly injured but alive, trapped under the rubble.

In an effort to rescue the survivors, the family contacted Israeli authorities, providing them with the residential address and GPS coordinates of their home to arrange for the safe passage of an ambulance. However, the Israeli military apparently used that information to bomb the house a second time and then targeted the ambulance as it attempted to rescue the survivors, killing the doctor and several children. Only a seven-year-old boy survived the incident.

CAIR has contacted the White House and the State Department to share details about the murder of the mother, a U.S. resident, and her extended family.

[FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@cair.com]

In a statement, CAIR National Executive Director Nihad Awad said:

“This is a documented Israeli war crime of the execution of a U.S. resident and her extended family in Gaza. The only option the Biden administration has is to stop supplying Israel with American weapons, funded by our nation’s taxpayers, which are being used to kill our citizens, legal permanent residents, and their families. The Biden administration has shown little concern for the mass killing of Palestinians, but perhaps it can be moved to recover the body of a U.S. resident who is also the mother of an American citizen. There must be an immediate ceasefire to end Israel’s genocide.”

He noted that yesterday, CAIR called on President Biden and Vice President Harris to watch the video of children being burned alive in their tents in the aftermath of an Israeli attack on a Gaza hospital courtyard and take action to force a ceasefire.

SEE: CAIR Calls on Biden, Harris to Watch Children Burning Alive in Israel’s Attack on Gaza Hospital, Force a Ceasefire  

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CONTACT: CAIR National Deputy Director Edward Ahmed Mitchell, 404-285-9530, e-Mitchell@cair.com; CAIR Government Affairs Director Robert McCaw, 202-742-6448, rmccaw@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Director Ibrahim Hooper, 202-744-7726, ihooper@cair.com; CAIR National Communications Manager Ismail Allison, 202-770-6280, iallison@cair.com