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CAIR: U.S. Muslims Condemn Israeli Massacre of 60 in One Gaza Family
January 6, 2009A prominent national Islamic civil rights and advocacy group today condemned a reported Israeli massacre of more than 60 members of an extended Palestinian family in the Gaza Strip. The Washington-based Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) cited a report in Britain's Telegraph newspaper, which states: "[A]s many as 60 members of the extended Samouni family were killed near their homes in the Gazan town of Zeitoun while nine more died in hospital. Dozens of bodies are believed to remain under the rubble of a large house hit repeatedly by Israeli shelling in the incident. The International Committee of the Red Cross has formally requested permission from the Israeli army to visit the scene of the attack to establish the exact scale of the slaughter." Full release