Premier Renews Call on Britain to Correct Its Historical Mistake against Palestinians
Ramallah, MINA – Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah renewed on Thursday the government’s call on the United Kingdom to “shoulder its responsibility for its historic mistake committed against our people and to correct it, instead of celebrating it by apologizing and recognizing the Palestinian state, support its establishment and compensate the Palestinian people for what they suffered as a result of this humanitarian catastrophe.”
He said in a statement marking the centennial of the Balfour Declaration that the “it is the right of our people to defend themselves by all means guaranteed by international charters and their right to freedom and independence and the establishment of their independent and sovereign Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with Jerusalem as its capital,” KUNA reported, quoting him in a statement marking the centennial of the Balfour Declaration.
Hamdallah called on the peoples of the free world to participate in events and marches that reject the Balfour promise “to mobilize British and world public opinion and push forward toward justice for our heroic people.”
The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government during World War I announcing support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a minority Jewish population.
Legal actions
Meanwhile, Foreign Minister Riyad Malki said on Thursday that legal proceedings against the British government will be soon brought before British, European and international courts to lift the injustice inflicted on the Palestinian people by the Balfour Declaration.
He said in a statement that the State of Palestine “made every effort possible to persuade the British government to abandon plans to celebrate the centennial of the Balfour Declaration because such a celebration shows lack of sensitivity to the Palestinian people.”
However, because these efforts have failed to yield results and because of its moral and national obligation towards its people, the Foreign and Expatriates Ministry will soon act to bring legal proceedings before.
The Balfour Declaration was announced in 1917, which formed “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine.
Some 12 million Palestinian people have been suffering due to Israeli unjust act since the declaration was formed. (T/RS5/RS1)
Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)