"Soon, there should be efforts to collect food and medicines that are desperately required for the people in Gaza," Slamet Effendy Yusuf stated here on Saturday.
Muslims in Indonesia should be able to encourage the settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict that has been raging endlessly, Slamet said.
"I would like to ask all of us to accept the existence of two independent and sovereign states in the region, namely Palestine and Israel. So, there is a new atmosphere at the center of a conflict that profoundly affects the peace of the region and the world," he emphasized.
Israeli air strikes on Friday killed six Palestinians, which included five in one attack on the home of an Islamic Jihad member, emergency services staff said.
Five Palestinians, including a woman, died when the house in Rafah, in southern Gaza was hit, and 15 others were wounded, Gazas emergency services spokesperson Ashraf al-Qudra said.
An air strike around an hour before killed Anas Abu al-Kass, 33, of Gaza Citys Tel el-Hawa neighbourhood.
According to Qudra, around 95 Gazans have been killed since Israel launched "Operation Protective Edge" early on Tuesday to halt cross-border rocket fire by Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip.
Earlier, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono had condemned the Israeli attack on Gaza, and made it one of the issues on the agenda to be discussed in the cabinet meeting at the Presidential Office in Jakarta, Friday.
The President continued efforts to end the violence through diplomatic means at the United Nations, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and the Non-Aligned Movement.
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