US Muslim civil rights group blames Biden administration for Gaza suffering

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair), the largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy group in the US, criticised the Biden administration on Wednesday for its role in the suffering of Palestinian civilians in Gaza.

This condemnation comes after the UN reported that the Israeli government is employing starvation as a "weapon of war."

“Innocent civilians in Gaza are being starved to death as part of the Israeli government’s genocidal campaign. This atrocity has been enabled by the Biden administration’s utter inability to stand up to what it claims is our nation’s ‘greatest ally,'" Cair national executive director Nihad Awad said.

"We urge the Biden administration to immediately change course and demand an end to Israel’s siege and an immediate ceasefire.

”Yesterday, the UN said that Israel's prevention of aid into the heavily damaged Gaza, along with its military actions, might constitute the use of starvation as a "weapon of war", which could be classified as a "war crime".

"The condition of hunger, starvation, and famine stems from Israel's broad limitations on the influx and circulation of humanitarian aid and commercial commodities," UN Human Rights chief Volker Turk said on Tuesday.