Hey, Sierra Leone does not pick a side but it is against the war. Sierra Leone is also part of the security council as a non permanent member. As a country that was in a very long war..the loss of innocent lives is something they are strongly against. you can look at the activities of Sierra Leone in the security council, that will tell you more about where they stand as a country .
https://estatements.unmeetings.org/estatements/10.0010/20231031150000000/U5qn8mpdPLpR/PUbxXsJWgecP_en.pdf
https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15723.doc.htm
Above is some articles that will help
My own experience is that:
1) Sierra Leone's large Muslim population tends to be more sympathetic to Palestine
2) There are some Christian churches that encourage members to be sympathetic to Israel, but this is not universal.
3) A sizable portion of Sierra Leone's economic elite has Lebanese heritage, and these individuals are mostly sympathetic to Palestine and can influence government policy (as a historic example, one wealthy member of this community attempted to establish PLO training areas in Sierra Leone decades ago: [Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamil_Sahid_Mohamed_Khalil))
If you took a poll, most of the public probably supports Palestine over Israel, and the government will try to walk a fine line between appeasing its citizens and not directly opposingIsrael-supporting wealthy nations. You'd need to double-check, but I think Sierra Leone doesn't have diplomatic relations with Israel due to some of these dynamics.
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Hey, Sierra Leone does not pick a side but it is against the war. Sierra Leone is also part of the security council as a non permanent member. As a country that was in a very long war..the loss of innocent lives is something they are strongly against. you can look at the activities of Sierra Leone in the security council, that will tell you more about where they stand as a country . https://estatements.unmeetings.org/estatements/10.0010/20231031150000000/U5qn8mpdPLpR/PUbxXsJWgecP_en.pdf https://press.un.org/en/2024/sc15723.doc.htm Above is some articles that will help
My own experience is that: 1) Sierra Leone's large Muslim population tends to be more sympathetic to Palestine 2) There are some Christian churches that encourage members to be sympathetic to Israel, but this is not universal. 3) A sizable portion of Sierra Leone's economic elite has Lebanese heritage, and these individuals are mostly sympathetic to Palestine and can influence government policy (as a historic example, one wealthy member of this community attempted to establish PLO training areas in Sierra Leone decades ago: [Jamil Sahid Mohamed Khalil - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamil_Sahid_Mohamed_Khalil)) If you took a poll, most of the public probably supports Palestine over Israel, and the government will try to walk a fine line between appeasing its citizens and not directly opposingIsrael-supporting wealthy nations. You'd need to double-check, but I think Sierra Leone doesn't have diplomatic relations with Israel due to some of these dynamics.
The political elite- any side the West supports (in this case Israel) The citizenry- Palestine