By NNN-Bernama,
Kuala Lumpur : Malaysia has called upon the United Nations Security Council to take the necessary action over the grave situation in Gaza following the escalating violence arising out of the latest air strikes by Israel which is continuing.
Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said Malaysia deplored the disproportionate use of military power by Israel against the people of Gaza.
Expressing Malaysia’s concern, he said, the excessive use of force by Israel had resulted in the deaths and injuries of hundreds of innocent civilians in Gaza including women and children.
“There must be an immediate halt to the violence. The international community must assist to establish peace in Gaza and this can only be done through peaceful means,” he said in a statement here Sunday.
He added that with reports of widespread casualties and suffering among the people there, a humanitarian catastrophe must be avoided at all costs.