AhlulBayt News Agency: A federal complaint has been filed against US President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, and Pentagon Chief Lloyd Austin for failing to “prevent an unfolding genocide and complicity in its development.”
New York civil liberties group the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed the suit on Monday on behalf of Palestinian human rights organizations, Palestinians in Gaza, and US citizens with relatives in the besieged enclave, who have faced nearly 40 days of unrelenting bombardments by Israel, which has been militarily and financially backed by the US.
“Under international law, the United States has a duty to take all measures available to it to prevent genocide. Yet, Defendants have repeatedly refused to use their obvious and considerable influence to set conditions or place limits on Israel’s massive bombing and total siege of Gaza,” the lawsuit reads.
It slammed the Biden administration for opposing “a life-saving cease-fire and lifting of the siege” and even vetoing “United Nations measures calling for a ceasefire.”
The complaint said the US, being Israel’s closest ally, strongest supporter, and biggest provider of military assistance, could have a “deterrent effect on Israeli officials now pursuing genocidal acts against the Palestinian people.”
“Instead, their actions to fund, arm, and endorse Israel’s mass and devastating bombing campaign and total siege of the Palestinians in Gaza constitutes a failure to prevent an unfolding genocide and complicity in its development.”
It also criticized the US for repeatedly affirming support for Israel even after it was widely reported that Israeli minister for war Yoav Gallant called Palestinians in Gaza “human animals.”
“Numerous Israeli government leaders have expressed clear genocidal intentions and deployed dehumanizing characterizations of Palestinians, including ‘human animals’,” the CCR wrote in its complaint.
It noted that those “statements of intent” when combined with the “mass killing” of Palestinians, reveal “evidence of an unfolding crime of genocide.”
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New York civil liberties group the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) filed the suit on Monday on behalf of Palestinian human rights organizations, Palestinians in Gaza, and US citizens with relatives in the besieged enclave, who have faced nearly 40 days of unrelenting bombardments by Israel, which has been militarily and financially backed by the US.
“Under international law, the United States has a duty to take all measures available to it to prevent genocide. Yet, Defendants have repeatedly refused to use their obvious and considerable influence to set conditions or place limits on Israel’s massive bombing and total siege of Gaza,” the lawsuit reads.
It slammed the Biden administration for opposing “a life-saving cease-fire and lifting of the siege” and even vetoing “United Nations measures calling for a ceasefire.”
The complaint said the US, being Israel’s closest ally, strongest supporter, and biggest provider of military assistance, could have a “deterrent effect on Israeli officials now pursuing genocidal acts against the Palestinian people.”
“Instead, their actions to fund, arm, and endorse Israel’s mass and devastating bombing campaign and total siege of the Palestinians in Gaza constitutes a failure to prevent an unfolding genocide and complicity in its development.”
It also criticized the US for repeatedly affirming support for Israel even after it was widely reported that Israeli minister for war Yoav Gallant called Palestinians in Gaza “human animals.”
“Numerous Israeli government leaders have expressed clear genocidal intentions and deployed dehumanizing characterizations of Palestinians, including ‘human animals’,” the CCR wrote in its complaint.
It noted that those “statements of intent” when combined with the “mass killing” of Palestinians, reveal “evidence of an unfolding crime of genocide.”
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