Cair lambasts Israel’s aid entry into Gaza as an 'insufficient, psychotic PR stunt'

Civil rights and advocacy organisation the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Cair) called Israel’s plan to allow only nine aid trucks into Gaza a “completely insufficient, psychotic PR stunt” on Monday.

Israel said it would end its almost three-month blockade to allow aid into Gaza by allowing nine aid trucks into the strip on Monday. But Cair said the move was not enough.

“The Israeli government’s decision to let a trickle of aid into Gaza - reportedly only nine aid trucks in a day - will do nothing to relieve the threat of famine facing two million Palestinian men, women and children besieged in Gaza. This is a completely insufficient, psychotic PR stunt by Netanyahu’s genocidal government, which is determined to occupy and flatten Gaza, and then expel any Palestinians who survive. The genocide - and our nation’s support for that genocide - must end,” Cair said in a statement.

More than 53,000 people in Gaza, mostly women and children, have been killed in the Gaza strip since Israel started its war.