Jakarta – About 200 Indonesian women protested against Israeli military strikes in the Gaza Strip outside the Egyptian embassy in Jakarta on Friday.

Carrying posters showing wounded and dead Palestinian children, they urged Egypt to open its border with Gaza for the delivery of humanitarian aid.

"As Palestine's closest neighbour, we hope Egypt will open roads so relief supplies can be sent to the victims," said Nani Handayani, of women's welfare group Salimah or Muslim Sisterhood.

"As mothers, we feel sad for the women who lost their children in Palestine... they are in our prayers."

The UN Security Council called Friday for an immediate ceasefire to halt the two-week-old war between Israel and the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas which has killed almost 800 Palestinians, many of them civilians.

A council resolution also called for the "unimpeded" provision of humanitarian aid to Gaza.

Egypt has partially opened its border for deliveries of foreign aid and for the evacuation of wounded Palestinians, and has asked the International Committee of the Red Cross to open a humanitarian corridor.

Israel announced a plan for a humanitarian corridor for Gaza's aid-dependent population of 1.5 million on Wednesday.