Hamas is demanding that Britain apologize for the 1917 Balfour Declaration, in which then-UK Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour declared that Britain would support the establishment of a national homeland for the Jewish people in the Land of Israel.
In an official statement to mark 98 years since the declaration, Hamas’ refugee affairs department said the declaration is now null and void, imposing full responsibility for its consequences on Britain, and demanding that it apologize, retract the declaration and admit it was a mistake.
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“The path of our people towards freedom, return and liberation goes like the path of other peoples who were under occupation – through struggle by all methods and means, first and foremost an armed struggle, ” the statement said, adding that “the Palestinian people” are very close to achieving their objectives and called on international institutions to press Britain to apologize for the Balfour Declaration.
The Palestinian Authority’s Culture Ministry also called on the British government to apologize for the “big crime” of the Balfour Declaration, “compensate the Palestinian people for the years of British and Zionist occupation of Palestine” and help the Palestinians establish a state on all “Palestinian land.”
