Varsity students protest Israeli attacks in Gaza

About 30 university students of the Coalition of Malaysian Muslim Students (Gamis) today held a protest at JalanTuanku Abdul Rahman against the attacks by Israel on Muslim settlers in the Gaza peninsula in Palestine.

They gathered for an hour from 3.30 pm and carried banners condemning the Tel Aviv regime.

Gamis president Muhamad Azan Safar said the gathering was only the beginning of protests against the Israeli action and that the coalition would send a memorandum to the US embassy soon.

"We will gather more Muslims to assemble in front of the US embassy and hand over a memorandum on the issue soon," he told reporters after the protest.

He said the Gamis top leadership would meet the ambassadors of Egypt and Turkey to ask the two governments to provide assistance to the people of Gaza.

Malaysia today called on the United Nations, especially the UN Security Council, to take stern action over what it described as irresponsible military action by Israel which targeted civilians in Gaza.

Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman said Malaysia strongly condemned the continued attacks by Israel in Gaza, which killed a Palestine leader and took the lives of seven other people, two of them children.