COMPLETE HANDS OVER MEMORANDUM TO EMBASSIES

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 12 (Bernama) -- The Coalition of Malaysian NGOs Against
Persecution of Palestinians (COMPLETE), comprising more than 100 NGOs, Thursday
handed over a memorandum to protest atrocities committed against the
Palestinians in Gaza to the Egyptian, Turkish and Palestinian Authority
embassies here.

Its chairman, Adnan Mohd Tahir, said COMPLETE would also hand over the
memorandum to the Venezuelan, French and the United States (US) embassies here
on Wednesday.

COMPLETE had also drafted letters to the Organisation of the Islamic
Conference (OIC) member nations and all foreign missions in Kuala Lumpur, Adnan
said.

In the memorandum, COMPLETE urged the international community to condemn
Israel's aggression and exert diplomatic pressure to compel Israel to adhere to
the various United Nations resolutions and act within the bounds of
international law, Adnan said.

"We request world leaders and eminent persons to seriously consider bringing
charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity to the political and military
leaders of Israel," he told Bernama after handing over a memorandum to the
Ambassador of the Palestinian Authority Abdelaziz Abu Ghous at Palestinian
Authority's Embassy here, Thursday.

Adnan said COMPLETE also urged the government of Egypt to emulate the
Venezuelan government in cutting off diplomatic ties with Israel and hoped that
other free nations would follow suit.

He added COMPLETE lauded the leaders of Venezuela and Turkey for their
courageous stand in condemning Israeli aggression against the Palestinians.

"COMPLETE urges the government of Egypt to immediately open the Rafah
crossing to allow food items and medicine that have been sent from all over the
world to be delivered to the people of Gaza and to allow medical and relief
personnel entry into Gaza for humanitarian relief work," he said.

He said that Turkey's active participation in the OIC would reinvigorate the
organization and rally governments of Muslim nations, in line with the expressed
sentiments of their citizens, to take a unified stand in condemning Israel and
push for a just resolution of the Palestinian tragedy.

"We believe the above measures will isolate and compel Israel to seriously
negotiate to end the tragedy leading to the creation of a free and independent
state of Palestine," he said.

COMPLETE is a coalition that cuts across racial, religious and political
lines in Malaysia. This coalition was formed after the recent escalation of
Israel-Palestine conflict that cultiminated in the invasion of Gaza.

-- BERNAMA