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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 375

Sri Lanka

A worker milking cows at a cowshed in the Golan Heights, on October 26, 2023. (Michael Giladi/Flash90)
January 1, 2024, 2:40 pm
Government to mull plan to replace Palestinian laborers with 80,000 foreign workers
Proposal calls for Israel to recruit tens of thousands from Sri Lanka, China, India, Thailand and Moldova as construction and agriculture industries struggle with shortage of hands
By ToI Staff
Sujith Nissanka (Courtesy)
November 16, 2023, 8:29 pm
Sujith Nissanka, 48: Dedicated Sri Lankan carer slain with his patient
Murdered by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be’eri on October 7
By ToI Staff
Police use tear gas to disperse the protesters who stormed the compound of prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe 's office, amid economic crisis in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 13, 2022. (Eranga Jayawardena/AP)
July 14, 2022, 12:13 pm
Israel warns against non-essential travel to Sri Lanka amid ‘chaos’
Foreign Ministry advises citizens to take into account rapidly deteriorating economic situation, fuel and food shortages as leaders flee
By Lazar Berman and AFP
Police use water canon and tear gas to disperse the protesters in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 9, 2022. (AP Photo/Amitha Thennakoon)
July 9, 2022, 6:16 pm
Sri Lanka president, PM to quit amid turmoil; Israel warns against travel to capital
Foreign Ministry calls on citizens to avoid Colombo after thousands storm president’s residence and office over economic crisis; 34 including 2 police officers hurt in scuffles
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Protestors jump into pool at president's residence in Colombo, Sri Lanka, July 9, 2022. (Screen grab/Daily Mirror Sri Lanka)
July 9, 2022, 11:17 am
Sri Lanka president flees as thousands of protesters storm palace, jump in pool
Gotabaya Rajapaksa said to have been escorted to safety as demonstrators protest unprecedented economic turmoil; at least 3 people shot, others hospitalized after inhaling tear gas
By Amal JAYASINGHE
Illustrative: An Iranian man holds a cup of tea. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/File)
December 24, 2021, 3:36 pm
Iran to accept payment in tea for Sri Lankan oil debt
Barter deal will allow sanctions-hit Tehran to avoid having to use up scarce hard currency to pay for imports of widely consumed staple amid debt valued at $251 million
By AFP
In this May 10, 2019, photo, lounge chairs lie on a deserted beach in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka (AP Photo/Eranga Jayawardena)
May 16, 2019, 4:18 pm
With Sri Lanka’s hotels empty, ‘resilient’ Israelis urged to visit
Resort manager says government should try to attract tourists from Israel, Russia, and India as they are ‘resilient to these kind of attacks and situations’
By BHARATHA MALLAWARACHI
A soldier stands guard during a Catholic Mass outside St. Joseph's church in Thannamunai, Sri Lanka, April 30, 2019. (AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
May 2, 2019, 6:23 pm
Sri Lanka Mass canceled over fresh attack fears
Muslim clerics refuse burial rites for 10 Islamic radicals killed during confrontation with security forces last week.
By Amal JAYASINGHE
A salesman covers the face of a mannequin with a niqab cafe veil at a women's clothing shop in Kattankudy, Sri Lanka, April 29, 2019. (AP/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
April 29, 2019, 8:49 pm
After attack, Sri Lanka uses emergency law to ban Muslim face coverings
Niqabs, long unheard of in island nation, have become more popular in recent years, but unclear how measure would have thwarted bombings
By Jon Gambrell and GEMUNU AMARSINGHE
Sri Lanka police chief Pujith Jayasundara looks on after launching the first on-line service delivery of the Sri Lankan police at the headquarters in Colombo on March 7, 2017 (Ishara S. KODIKARA / AFP)
April 29, 2019, 11:13 am
Sri Lanka police chief refuses to quit over Easter terror attacks
President has named his successor, but Pujith Jayasundara won’t step down despite intelligence failings ahead of the bombings that killed 253 people
By AFP
Relatives pay their respects in front of the graves of the victims of recent bomb blasts at St. Sebastian's Church in Negombo, Sri Lanka, on April 28, 2019, a week after a series of jihadist bomb blasts targeted churches and luxury hotels on Easter Sunday. (Ishara S. Kodikara/AFP)
April 28, 2019, 1:28 pm
With churches shut after bombs, Sri Lankans hear Mass on TV
‘Our hearts are tested by the great destruction,’ says Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, archbishop of Colombo, as country’s churches shuttered amid fears of further jihadist attacks
By Jon Gambrell and KRISHAN FRANCIS
In this picture taken on April 26, 2019, security personnel display seized items after they raid what believed to be an Islamist safe house in the eastern town of Kalmunai (STRINGER / AFP)
April 28, 2019, 6:31 am
Islamic State claims deadly clashes with Sri Lankan police
Terror group says its men fought security forces, detonated explosives belts during battle that left 15 dead amid fallout from Easter bombings
By Agencies
Footage of the explosion at the Kingsbury Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka, on April 21, 2019 (YouTube screenshot)
April 27, 2019, 11:45 pm
Sri Lanka security cam footage shows moments of deadly hotel bombing
Newly released video also shows bombers in several other locations shortly before the Easter attacks that killed at least 250 people
By ToI Staff and AFP
Zahran Hashim delivers a sermon in an undated online video. Hashim allegedly headed the extremist Muslim group blamed for Easter Sunday terror attacks in Sri Lanka. (screen capture: YouTube)
April 27, 2019, 6:56 pm
Local Muslims say they reported mastermind of Sri Lanka terror attacks years ago
Community leaders sounded the alarm about Zahran Hashim after seminary expelled him for ‘hardline’ views; Hashim had dozens of hate-filled sermons uploaded to YouTube
By Agencies and ToI Staff
In this April 25, 2019 photo, a Sri Lankan policewoman looks at the damage inside St. Sebastian's Church, one of the sites of Easter Sunday's bombings, in Negombo, north of Colombo, Sri Lanka (AP Photo/Manish Swarup)
April 27, 2019, 2:06 pm
Amid horror, Sri Lanka church still shows beauty
It’s thought nearly half of the roughly 250 people killed in the Easter bombings died at the Negombo church
By Manish Swarup
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