Sri Lankan Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa today said that the Palestinian people’s legitimate right to statehood must be upheld amidst escalating tension between Palestine and Israel which had claimed many lives in recent weeks.Rajapaksa said he was deeply concerned about the latest outbreak of hostilities within the Israeli-Palestinian region, which had already caused untold suffering for the people on both sides of …
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Extending an Olive Branch to Palestine by MORGAN HULL
Gaza and the West Bank and have been under occupation since 1967, and in that time over 2.5 million olive trees have been uprooted and destroyed. Cutting down olive trees on Palestinian soil is a brutal assault on the Palestinian people’s culture and livelihoods, a symbolic destruction of Palestine itself. On the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, …
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