28-12-2008
According to Bernma News Agency, Malaysia has called upon the United Nations Security Council to take the necessary action over the grave situation in Gaza following the escalating violence arising out of the latest air strikes by Israel which is continuing. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Malaysia deplored the disproportionate use of military power by Israel against the people of Gaza. Expressing Malaysia's concern, he said, the excessive use of force by Israel had resulted in the deaths and injuries of hundreds of innocent civilians in Gaza including women and children. "There must be an immediate halt to the violence.
The international community must assist to establish peace in Gaza and this can only be done through peaceful means," he said in a statement here Sunday. He added that with reports of widespread casualties and suffering among the people there, a humanitarian catastrophe must be avoided at all costs. Meanwhile, Indonesia has condemned the Israeli missile attacks on the Gaza Strip, accusing Israel of abusing the Annapolis agreement signed by the two disputing countries in November last year and warning that the air strikes will only trigger "new tensions" in the area, according to Jakarta Post.
"The Indonesian government is deeply upset by the deaths of about 150 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip caused by the Israeli missile attacks, said Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesman Teuku Faizasyah in an official statement made available to The Jakarta Post Saturday.
"The Indonesian government condemns the attack and calls for Israel to end the use of violence in the Gaza Strip because this will prompt new tensions, while, on the other side, the attack is an abuse of the Annapolis agreement which had been negotiated,"