Peace Malaysia mission to Gaza

KUALA LUMPUR: A seven-man team from Peace Malaysia is set to leave next week for the Gaza strip in the Middle East to disburse aid to the residents suffering there.
Peace Malaysia coordinator Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir said the team would include three doctors to help the people living on the strip of land bordered by Egypt and Israel.
"Ever since the Israeli siege started, they have been suffering. They lack basic necessities such as fuel and medicine.
"The siege has reduced 85% of Gaza's 1.5 million inhabitants to total dependency on food aid which is the highest anywhere in the world," he said when launching the Gaza humanitarian fund on Tuesday.
Mukhriz said funds were needed to purchase food and medicine in Egypt which the team would then disburse upon reaching the border of Egypt and Gaza (Rafah).
"We have been in touch with the Red Crescent society in Gaza to find out exactly what they need. They have since emailed us their list," he said.
Mukhriz urged Malaysians, including corporations, to lend a hand in helping the residents there.
He said the organisation had a target of RM200,000 and that the public could send its cheques to Peace Malaysia at B-13-D2, Plaza Mont Kiara, No 2, Jalan Kiara, 50480 Kuala Lumpur or bank it in to Peace Malaysia (CIMB-14209-0007389058).

Aman Malaysia Launches Gaza Humanitarian Fund

KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 29 (Bernama) -- Aman Malaysia today launched the Gaza Humanitarian Fund to help the 1.5 million Palestinians trapped after the Israeli regime closed its border in June.
"We aim to collect RM200,000 to buy food, medical supplies and clean water for those in Gaza," its coordinator Datuk Mukhriz Mahathir told a press conference at the Umno Youth headquarters here today.
Contributions to the fund could be made via cheque in the name of PEACE MALAYSIA and addressed to Blok B-13-D2, Plaza Mont Kiara, No 2, Jalan Kiara, 50480 Kuala Lumpur or cheque deposit or cash into the account of Peace Malaysia at CIMB 142090007389058.
Mukhriz who is Umno Youth international relations and non-governmental organisations (NGOs) bureau chairman said the food and medical supplies would be sent to Rafah at the Egyptian border, some 300km from Cairo.
The first logistics team would leave for Rafah on Feb 5 while the main Aman Malaysia team of seven members comprising three doctors would leave two days later.
He said Aman Malaysia would co-operate with the Red Crescent at Gaza in determining the medicine needed to help the Palestinians who were suffering a humanitarian crisis due to the oppressive Israeli regime.
Meanwhile, Palestinian ambassador to Malaysia Abd Elaziz Abu Ghoush said his government welcomed the efforts by Aman Malaysia to help those in Gaza who were under total seizure and were denied food, medicine, water and fuel.
He said an unofficial estimate put the number of those who had fled across the Egyptian border to become refugees at 700,000. Gaza which borders Egypt, Israel and the Mediterranean Sea is 40km long and 7km wide.
About 85 per cent of the 1.5 million Gaza population are fully dependent on the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, a UN agency charged with helping Palestinian refugees.
The Malaysian Buddhist chief high priest K. Sri Dhammaratana, who donated RM1,000 to the fund, said the Gaza situation was not only about Muslims, but also about a humanitarian crisis which needed the attention of everyone irrespective of their religious and racial backgrounds.

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