Church leaders in the Holy Land in their annual Easter message have urged the international community to halt a boycott of the new Palestinian government headed by the Islamist Hamas movement.

 

Church leaders in the Holy Land in their annual Easter message have urged the international community to halt a boycott of the new Palestinian government headed by the Islamist Hamas movement. “We call first upon the international community that decided to boycott the Palestinian people: it is not permitted to boycott a people on whom oppressions and injustices were and are being imposed,” the Christian leaders stated.