Gaza was enjoying a second night of calm on Monday (19 Jan) as Israeli troops began withdrawing after their deadly 22-day onslaught in the battered territory was halted by a fragile ceasefire deal.

Palestinian Islamic Hamas movement vowed Saturday (17 Jan) to continue fighting with Israel, in the wake of intensified efforts for a ceasefire to end the ongoing Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip, China's Xinhua news agency reported.

About 3,000 students from Universiti Malaysia Perlis (UniMAP) staged a peaceful protest Saturday (17 Jan) against Zionist aggression in Gaza by walking 23km from Beseri to Pauh.

The UN General Assembly voted overwhelmingly late Friday to demand an immediate and durable ceasefire in the strife-torn Gaza Strip leading to the full withdrawal of Israeli forces.

Some 60 members of the Majelis Mujahiddin and Laskar Muhahiddin organisations threw rotten eggs at a Western fast-food restaurant in an anti-Israeli rally here on Friday (16 Jan).

Malaysia has expressed the hope that the emergency session of the United Nations General Asssembly (UNGA) will be able to come up with workable solutions on the crisis in Gaza.

Israeli troops again pounded Gaza on Friday after killing a top Hamas leader, as the Islamists offered a conditional truce amid a diplomatic push to end the war that has killed more than 1,100 people.

The head of Hamas' government in Gaza, Ismail Haniya, made a direct appeal to Western readers Thursday to press for an end to Israel's military offensive, as he spelled out his conditions for a ceasefire.

Indonesia has had extensive experience and developed an impressive reputation for participating in UN-led peacekeeping operations in at least 21 war zones across the globe, including in the Sinai in the 1970s, in Cambodia and Bosnia in the early 1990s and currently in Lebanon.

Israeli forces battled Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip's main city early Wednesday and bombed the enclave's southern border with Egypt as the death toll from the war on Hamas neared 1,000.