Rep. Tlaib posts message for Biden from American trapped in Gaza

Rep. Tlaib posts message for Biden from American trapped in Gaza

Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., says she received a recording from a Michigan resident trapped in Gaza on Thursday.

Tlaib said the recording was meant to be a message for President Biden, who has continued in his full support of Israel's retaliatory war against Hamas.

"Zakaria Alarayshi, a Michigan resident, trapped in Gaza, sent me the following text and voice note this morning," Tlaib wrote on Instagram.

"This is a message is for President Biden," Alarayshi can be heard saying. "This war must stop. Women and children are dying every minute. Entire families are being wiped out in their homes. We have no food, no water and no medicine and nowhere to go. We are dying slowly. We ask you and we ask our president for an immediate ceasefire and for help to get us out of here. No where is safe in Gaza. They asked us to go south, we did. And now they are bombing our streets, our homes and our shops. We need immediate help. Is there any humanity left in the world?"

Tlaib followed up the recording by saying, "The voices of those who on the ground in Gaza need to be heard now more than ever."

Tlaib has come under heavy fire in recent days for blindly repeating a claim from Hamas that Israel had bombed a hospital in Gaza, killing 500 people. Later intelligence would indicate that not only were the casualties a fraction of that, but the blast originated from a rocket fired by militants in Gaza that fell short of its target.