1MALAYSIA PUTERA CLUB TEAM REACH GAZA BORDER

FROM SYED AZWAN ALI

RAFAH, Aug 10 (Bernama) -- The Kelab Putera 1Malaysia (1Malaysia Putera
Club)humanitarian mission has reached this town bordering the Gaza strip and is
scheduled to cross into the Palestinian territory later Monday evening (Egytian
time).

A total of 67 volunteers led by the club's president Abdul Azeez Abdul
Rahim left Cairo at 8am (Egyptian time) and arrived here seven hours later in an
overland journey.

The convoy of two buses, three cars and a lorry laden with medicine, clothes
and food weighing a total of 11 tonnes, did not have any problems clearing 18
checkpoints along the way as it was accompanied by Egyptian police outriders.

An official from the Malaysian embassy in Cairo is also accompanying the
mission.

The mission, which has the full support of the Red Crescent societies of
Malaysia, Egypt and Palestine, also has 35 doctors from the various races in
Malaysia in it.

The 13-day mission, which began on Aug 8, aims to provide help to 2,000
families in five villages in the conflict zone in conjunction with the holy
month of Ramadan.
-- BERNAMA


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