Leadership (Abuja)
Emmanuel Iffer
1 January 2009
Abuja — Despite the ongoing crisis between Israel and the Hamas in the Gaza strip, Nigerian Christian pilgrims have been assured of their safety while in Israel.
This assurance was handed out in a joint press briefing by the Israeli embassy in Nigeria and the Nigerian Christian Pilgrims Commission (NCPC), in Abuja, yesterday.
The Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr Moshe Ram, who spoke on behalf of the Israeli government, assured that all Nigerian pilgrims who were already in his country were safe and that nothing unexpected would happen to any of them.
Ambassador Ram noted that his country had taken necessary steps to ensure that the pilgrims were safe during the period of the religious exercise in Israel.
" I want to assure Nigeria and all Nigerians that their safety is guaranteed and nothing will happen to any of the pilgrims" he added.
The Israeli ambassador also pointed out that the pilgrim exercise was too important to his country and as such, his country was prepared to do everything possible to protect the pilgrims from any harm that the current political situation in the region posses to them and their safety.
He noted that as a result of this, pilgrims would be restricted to areas that were far off the crisis ridden areas.
Ambassador Ram also took the opportunity to give a background to the ongoing hostilities between Israeli forces and the Hamas group in the Gaza strip, which he said was informed by an eight-year rocket attacks on innocent civilians in Israel.
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