Selamat pergi, selamat kembali MERCY Malaysia

Wed 31 Dec 2008.

Dear Friends
Today in the early morning hours , and while the health emergency teams on duty in Jabalia were trying to evacuate the injured and dead , they were targeted by the Israeli army. One of the paramedics was killed, and another injured. (I will provide more details when I have the names and time of the incident )

I warned in a previous entry in my blog , and several times in my writing while reporting from Gaza since 2000, of the targeting of health teams while on duty and in clear uniform .

Who is violating human rights? And, talking of terrorism - what about state terrorism!

In Gaza we have much evidence of daily human rights violations. We do not need the world to say they did not know, when this genocide is such a prominent fact.

Sumber: Mona El-Farra of From Gaza With Love

MERCY Malaysia to respond to humanitarian needs in Palestine

Kuala Lumpur, 30 December 2008 - MERCY Malaysia will be deploying a team comprising medical surgeons and logistics personnel to Egypt in response to the humanitarian needs resulting from the recent Israeli onslaught on the Gaza Strip, which has so far killed more than 300 people and wounded more than 1500 people.

This team, aimed at conducting a rapid assessment of the humanitarian needs, will be led by MERCY Malaysia President Datuk Dr. Jemilah Mahmood and Executive Council Member Norazam Ab Samah. They will be based at the Egyptian border town of Rafah to put together a logistic pipeline that will ensure that aid will be channelled to the proper parties in Gaza.

The team will leave Kuala Lumpur for Egypt tonight.

Sumber: Mercy Malaysia

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