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38886
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US$1 MILLION HUMANITARIAN AID FROM MALAYSIA
PUTRAJAYA, JAN 5 (Bernama) -- Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad
Badawi has authorised the immediate disbursement of US$1 million as humanitarian
aid from the government to the Palestinian people.
He said the money had been channeled through and would be used by Mercy
Malaysia, a non-profit medical relief organisation, to deliver relief supplies.
The Foreign Ministry had reopened its Fund for Palestine to receive and
coordinate the collection of assistance from the people of Malaysia, he said in
a statement here today.
Malaysia, he said, would continue to extend humanitarian assistance to the
people of Gaza within its means.
The prime minister said he was also writing letters to various world leaders
to request them to use their good office and personal influence to convince
Israeli leaders to stop the bombardment of Gaza and agree to a ceasefire.
Israel had attacked and terrorised Palestine since last week, killing
about 500 people.
Abdullah said Malaysia continued to hold the view that durable peace and
stability for Gaza could only be secured through peaceful negotiations.
He said the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) had a moral duty to stop
the atrocities committed by Israel and demand a ceasefire by all sides.
"A failure by the UNSC to do that would escalate the crisis, endanger
Palentinian unity and threaten the peace and security of the wider Middle East.
"Any ground offensive into Gaza by Israel is an act of total war which the
international community should not tolerate.
"I note that the UN Secutiry Council continues to fail to act on this
critical matter. I therefore urge that an emergency special session of the
United Nations General Assembly be convened to adopt a "Uniting for Peace"
resolution," he said.
Israel, he said, was meting out a systematic form of collective
punishment
upon Gaza without any consideration for innocent people or the destruction of
their properties.
These actions were totally immoral and in clear violation of internation law
and they should be condemned by all people of conscience.
"On behalf of the government and people of Malaysia, I wish to reiterate my
gravest concern that Israel is continuing the bombardments against Gaza without
any due regard for human lives or world public opinion," he said.
-- BERNAMA
Badawi has authorised the immediate disbursement of US$1 million as humanitarian
aid from the government to the Palestinian people.
He said the money had been channeled through and would be used by Mercy
Malaysia, a non-profit medical relief organisation, to deliver relief supplies.
The Foreign Ministry had reopened its Fund for Palestine to receive and
coordinate the collection of assistance from the people of Malaysia, he said in
a statement here today.
Malaysia, he said, would continue to extend humanitarian assistance to the
people of Gaza within its means.
The prime minister said he was also writing letters to various world leaders
to request them to use their good office and personal influence to convince
Israeli leaders to stop the bombardment of Gaza and agree to a ceasefire.
Israel had attacked and terrorised Palestine since last week, killing
about 500 people.
Abdullah said Malaysia continued to hold the view that durable peace and
stability for Gaza could only be secured through peaceful negotiations.
He said the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) had a moral duty to stop
the atrocities committed by Israel and demand a ceasefire by all sides.
"A failure by the UNSC to do that would escalate the crisis, endanger
Palentinian unity and threaten the peace and security of the wider Middle East.
"Any ground offensive into Gaza by Israel is an act of total war which the
international community should not tolerate.
"I note that the UN Secutiry Council continues to fail to act on this
critical matter. I therefore urge that an emergency special session of the
United Nations General Assembly be convened to adopt a "Uniting for Peace"
resolution," he said.
Israel, he said, was meting out a systematic form of collective
punishment
upon Gaza without any consideration for innocent people or the destruction of
their properties.
These actions were totally immoral and in clear violation of internation law
and they should be condemned by all people of conscience.
"On behalf of the government and people of Malaysia, I wish to reiterate my
gravest concern that Israel is continuing the bombardments against Gaza without
any due regard for human lives or world public opinion," he said.
-- BERNAMA
