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42432
Fri, 01/23/2009 - 21:26
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INDONESIAN WORKER TRAPPED IN GAZA EVACUATED
Jakarta, Jan 23 (ANTARA) - An Indonesian worker trapped in the Gaza Strip, Umi Saodah, was successfully evacuated by a team from the Indonesian embassy in Cairo at 6 pm local time (or at 2 am in Indonesia) on Thursday.
"The team successfully evacuated Umi Saodah from the border area in Rafah to Cairo, Egypt, at 2 a.m Indonesian time," Foreign Ministry spokesman Teuku Faizasyah said here on Friday.
He said Umi Saodah could be evacuated after intensive coordination between the Indonesian embassy in Cairo and various relevant parties in Indonesia, Egypt and Palestine.
A member of the Palestinian Reconciliation Committee, Abu Ja'far, handed over Saodah to Muhammad Abdullah, a counsellor at the Indonesian embassy in Cairo, at the gate of the border area in Rafah, he said.
Faizasyah said the evacuation was accomplished after prolonged coordination between the Indonesian embassy and the Palestine Red-Cross and after the truce between the warring parties had made conditions in Gaza more conducive.
After the cease-fire was announced, the Indonesian Ambassador to Egypt ordered the team to depart to Rafah to carry out the evacuation on Tuesday January 20.
Initially, the embassy's team intended to enter the Gaza Strip but the Egyptian authorities did not allow it for security reasons so that the Indonesian embassy had to coordinate again with other parties to ascertain Saodah's position.
"For the sake of security, the whereabouts of Saodah who was staying with a Palestinian family, was kept secret during the Israeli aggression," the ministry spokesman said.
"The team successfully evacuated Umi Saodah from the border area in Rafah to Cairo, Egypt, at 2 a.m Indonesian time," Foreign Ministry spokesman Teuku Faizasyah said here on Friday.
He said Umi Saodah could be evacuated after intensive coordination between the Indonesian embassy in Cairo and various relevant parties in Indonesia, Egypt and Palestine.
A member of the Palestinian Reconciliation Committee, Abu Ja'far, handed over Saodah to Muhammad Abdullah, a counsellor at the Indonesian embassy in Cairo, at the gate of the border area in Rafah, he said.
Faizasyah said the evacuation was accomplished after prolonged coordination between the Indonesian embassy and the Palestine Red-Cross and after the truce between the warring parties had made conditions in Gaza more conducive.
After the cease-fire was announced, the Indonesian Ambassador to Egypt ordered the team to depart to Rafah to carry out the evacuation on Tuesday January 20.
Initially, the embassy's team intended to enter the Gaza Strip but the Egyptian authorities did not allow it for security reasons so that the Indonesian embassy had to coordinate again with other parties to ascertain Saodah's position.
"For the sake of security, the whereabouts of Saodah who was staying with a Palestinian family, was kept secret during the Israeli aggression," the ministry spokesman said.
