Biden declared war criminal
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the largest Muslim civil rights organization in the US, has declared President Joe Biden ‘a war criminal’ for continuing to send weapons to Israel.
The civil rights organization announced this in a statement on Wednesday over his decision to continue supplying arms to Israel despite its failure to meet a US-mandated deadline for allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza.
CAIR emphasized its view that Biden's actions equate to complicity in war crimes, saying "knowingly funding war crimes in violation of US and international law makes you a war criminal."
“We strongly condemn President Biden’s decision to continue illegally supplying the Israeli government with deadly weapons even after (Prime Minister) Benjamin Netanyahu violated the 30-day deadline that the administration set for Israel to stop starving Gaza," it said.
In an Oct. 13 letter sent by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to their Israeli counterparts, the US urged Israel to improve Gaza's humanitarian conditions within 30 days or face consequences.
The letter outlined specific demands, including a requirement for a minimum of 350 aid trucks to enter Gaza daily and a directive to refrain from adopting a controversial law that would ban all activities of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA) in Israel and the occupied territories.
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