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42438
Fri, 01/23/2009 - 21:50
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MER-C TO SEND ANOTHER MEDICAL TEAM TO GAZA
Jakarta, Jan 23 (ANTARA) - Indonesia's Medical Emergency Rescue Committee (MER-C) is to send another medical team to war-torn Gaza to give relief aid to Palestinians who are suffering from 22 days of Israeli military strikes.
"Our advance team managed to enter Gaza on January 17. They are being assigned at Asy Syifa hospital in Gaza. On Saturday, our second team consisting of seven volunteers will leave for Cairo from where they will go straight to our base camp at El Arish," Hendry Hiayatullah, a member of MER-C's presidium council, said here Friday.
The second team made up of a general practitioner, a general surgeon, an internist, a neurologist, and three non-medical volunteers would assist MER-C's advance team in Gaza City, he said.
Hendry said the committee would also periodically send medical aid to the conflict-stricken area according to the need in the field.
"And if peace prevails in Gaza, we will help rehabilitate health facilities damaged in the Israeil attacks using funds from the Indonesian community," he said.
He said MER-C has so far raised an estimated Rp10 billion from the Indonesian community for the Palestinian people.
"Only Rp2 billion of the funds has been used. If peace prevails there we will use the funds to reconstruct the damaged health facilities," he said.
Besides MER-C, another Indonesian humanitarian organization, Quick Response Movement (ACT) has also sent relief aid to Palestine.
A Hamas spokesman who is also a special envoy of the Palestine prime minister, Sammi Abu Uzair, said the 22 day-assaults committed by Israeli military since December 27, 2008 had killed some 1,330 people and injured 5,450 others.
The vicious Israeli attacks had also destroyed at least 4,000 houses, he said after meetings with People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Chairman Hidayat Nurwahid and House of Representatives (DPR) Speaker Agung Laksono at the parliament building here Friday.
The Israeli bombing raids and ground attacks had killed elderly people, women and children, and destroyed schools, places of worship and hospitals, he said.
"Our advance team managed to enter Gaza on January 17. They are being assigned at Asy Syifa hospital in Gaza. On Saturday, our second team consisting of seven volunteers will leave for Cairo from where they will go straight to our base camp at El Arish," Hendry Hiayatullah, a member of MER-C's presidium council, said here Friday.
The second team made up of a general practitioner, a general surgeon, an internist, a neurologist, and three non-medical volunteers would assist MER-C's advance team in Gaza City, he said.
Hendry said the committee would also periodically send medical aid to the conflict-stricken area according to the need in the field.
"And if peace prevails in Gaza, we will help rehabilitate health facilities damaged in the Israeil attacks using funds from the Indonesian community," he said.
He said MER-C has so far raised an estimated Rp10 billion from the Indonesian community for the Palestinian people.
"Only Rp2 billion of the funds has been used. If peace prevails there we will use the funds to reconstruct the damaged health facilities," he said.
Besides MER-C, another Indonesian humanitarian organization, Quick Response Movement (ACT) has also sent relief aid to Palestine.
A Hamas spokesman who is also a special envoy of the Palestine prime minister, Sammi Abu Uzair, said the 22 day-assaults committed by Israeli military since December 27, 2008 had killed some 1,330 people and injured 5,450 others.
The vicious Israeli attacks had also destroyed at least 4,000 houses, he said after meetings with People's Consultative Assembly (MPR) Chairman Hidayat Nurwahid and House of Representatives (DPR) Speaker Agung Laksono at the parliament building here Friday.
The Israeli bombing raids and ground attacks had killed elderly people, women and children, and destroyed schools, places of worship and hospitals, he said.
