KUALA LUMPUR: Pakatan Rakyat has challenged Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak to join a ‘round-table’ conference on Friday in Kampung Baru to support the protest against Israel’s attack on a six-vessel humanitarian convoy on international waters on Monday.
Pakatan will be holding the conference among all political parties on Friday at 11am in Kampung Baru, Kuala Lumpur.
“The conference aims to show public anger at Israel's act of cruelty,” said Pakatan leader Anwar Ibrahim.
“And after Friday prayers, we will organise a procession to the US Embassy where we will submit a memorandum objecting to Israel’s attack,” he added. He was speaking to reporters after chairing a meeting with Pakatan leaders on the issue last night.
Anwar added that based on the government’s stand (to oppose the attacks), it was vital that Najib went to the ground.
“I challenge Najib to join the procession. We want to know his stand. We want the prime minister, as leader of an Islamic nation, to be firm and openly condemn Israel’s inhumaneness.
“Najib must be with the people, irrespective of their political leanings, in showing his objections to this brutal act,” he said.
Anwar also reiterated earlier calls by PAS for Najib to convene an emergency parliamentary sitting by Friday or at the latest on Sunday to discuss the attack.
Cut ties with Egypt
On Monday Israeli navy attacked a Turkish ship, Mavi Marmara, carrying humanitarian aid to the blockaded Gaza, killing 20 people and leaving many others injured.
The ship was part of a six vessel flotilla ferrying 700 volunteers and 10,000 tonnes of medicines, food and construction material for 100,000 homeless Palestinians.
Relief operators were forced to take the sea route to Gaza after Egypt closed its Rafah borders, denying them entry by road.
Yesterday, PAS accused Israel and Egypt of murder, saying that it was Egypt’s fault that 20 volunteers on board the Turkish ship, Mavi Marmara, were killed and 30 others injured.
PAS had also urged the Malaysian government to cease all diplomatic and trade ties, official or otherwise, with Egypt.
Meanwhile in a memorandum submitted to the US Embassy yesterday morning, PAS called on America to stop its military support to Israel. A similar memorandum was also submitted by PKR to the embassy yesterday.
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