(Michigan Advance) U.S. Rep. Rashida Tlaib (D-Detroit) responded Wednesday about the latest violence in Israel and Gaza in a comment first reported in the Advance.
This was 72 hours after the initial statement from Tlaib, the daughter of Palestinian immigrants who’s a frequent critic of Israel, was slammed by many Republican and Democratic lawmakers alike for not condemning Hamas, an Islamic militant group that last week launched surprise attacks against Israel, including beheadings.
This was the deadliest day in the Jewish state in a half-century since the Yom Kippur War. Israel has since declared war and the death toll has topped 1,200 people, including 22 Americans.
“I do not support the targeting and killing of civilians, whether in Israel or Palestine,” Tlaib first told the Advance on Wednesday. “The fact that some have suggested otherwise is offensive and rooted in bigoted assumptions about my faith and ethnicity.”
