Call to cease Israeli aggression in Gaza

The Sri Lanka Committee for Solidarity with Palestine has invited representatives of the country's major political parties for a public meeting on Tuesday, July 22 at 3.30 pm at the Library Services Auditorium, Colombo to jointly condemn the mass killing of civilians, denounce the double standards of the major powers in the international community in upholding human rights, demand freedom for Palestine and its people from decades of illegal occupation and oppression.

Sri Lanka, for over a half a century, with the overwhelming majority of the international community has stood by calls for freedom for the Palestinian people and their right to resist an illegal occupation and oppression.

As of 2013, Israel had been condemned in 45 resolutions by the United Nations Human Rights Council since its creation in 2006 - the Council had resolved more resolutions condemning Israel than on the rest of the world combined. The meeting will be presided over by Co-Presidents of the Sri Lanka Committee for Solidarity with Palestine, Athauda Seneveiratne and Imthiaz Bakeer Markar.