Najib: Gaza visit a show of support to Palestine

PRIME MINISTER Datuk Seri Najib Razak yesterday said he was following his heart to visit Gaza and be with the Palestinian people.

"There is no better way ... It is the best way to set foot on Gaza to show our support to the Palestinian people," he said in his speech at a meeting with Palestinian cabinet ministers here Tuesday.

Najib who is on a one day humanitarian visit to Gaza was accompanied by Foreign Minister Datuk Seri Anifah Aman and Minister in the Prime Minister's Department Datuk Seri Jamil Khir Baharom.

The Prime Minister said Malaysians can send humanitarian and financial aid to the Palestinians but considered his visit as a very strong symbol of an undying support for Palestine.

"I hope more and more Muslim leaders from all over the world would do the same. This struggle is not only for Palestinians but also for the Ummah," he said.

Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said in his speech at the meeting that Najib's visit to Gaza was the first ever by a non-Arab Prime Minister.

Meanwhile, in his Twitter account @NajibRazak, Najib described his humanitarian visit to Gaza as smooth, safe and successful.

"I visited Gaza and was received by Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. I also visited the site of a school that would be build by Malaysia. Thank GOD, my 'business' in Gaza was smooth and successful," he said.

Najib also added a picture of him and Ismail together in his Facebook page.

In DAVOS (Switzerland), Najib's tweets were the most re-tweeted (RT) for about five hours, beginning 10am.

The position was shown on the big screen at Kongress Zentrum Building where the World Economic Forum (WEF) Annual Meeting 2013 will be held for five days, beginning today.

Najib, who is also Malaysia's Finance Minister, was at the far front, followed by authors Sant Jordi Asociados and Paolo Coelho, Italy Prime Minister Mario Monti, columnist, The New York Times, USA, Nicholas D. Kristof and Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Right Start Foundation International, Amr Khaled who are all participants of the forum.

Their twitter activities are being monitored by WEF.

The active retweets by Najib's followers are believed to be linked to the prime minister while he was in Gaza, Palestine.

Najib said that he was following his heart to visit Gaza and be with the Palestinian people.

The prime minister is scheduled to arrive in Davos City, an extreme contrast in weather from Gaza, on Jan 24. — Bernama

(Source: The Malay Mail)