Chinyere Amalu
12 January 2009
Amidst in creasing humanitarian crisis in Palestine, Iran has appealed to the Nigerian Government to prevail on Egypt to open its borders so that victims of the crisis could easily be reached with relief materials.
Egypt has since the war refused to open its borders to Iran or any other country to come to the aid of the Palestinians for fear of terrorist.
The Iranian Minister of Education, Dr. Ali -Ahmadi, who made this appeal in Abuja during a press conference spoke in Arabic, which was translated by his Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Khosrow Rezazedeh.
He said the Palestinians needed a lot of support and relief materials, after Israel pounded Hamas positions for the past two weeks.
"We want Nigeria to appeal to Egypt, since both are close African countries, to open its borders so that we can send humanitarians aids to the people who are really in need of these.
"The Palestinians have been deprived of food, medicine etc. we can help them. We have doctors, truck load of food, etc to get to them", he stated, adding that only the opening of the Egyptian borders can facilitate access to the Palestinians.
Ali also said it was time for Nigeria to take a position on the war between Israel and Hamas, instead of maintaining silence.
The Ambassador condemned the war and called for its immediate resolution, noting that the refusal of Israel, particularly, to ceasefire despite the UN resolution to that effect was unfortunate.
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