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Palestinian forces call for large-scale anti-Balfour events

Monday 23-October-2017

Palestinian national and Islamic forces on Monday called for organizing large-scale events in the Palestinian territories and abroad against the Balfour Declaration which anniversary falls on 2nd November.

According to the Palestinian forces the central event will be held in Ramallah and al-Bireh province and other events will be organized in the Gaza Strip the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories and Jerusalem.

The Palestinian forces asked Britain to apologize for the Balfour Declaration and recognize the rights of the Palestinian people including their rights of return self-determination and statehood.

They condemned the celebration scheduled to be held in London to mark the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration with the participation of Israel and confirmed their rejection of any solutions harming the constant rights of the Palestinian people.

In another context the Palestinian forces called for prosecuting all those involved in the secret sales of the Orthodox Church lands in Jerusalem and working to cancel these sales.

They expressed their rejection of any form of normalization with Israel and stressed the importance of launching a comprehensive boycott campaign against Israel and supporting the global Boycott Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS).

They also demanded that efforts should be intensified to liberate the Palestinian prisoners and hold Israel accountable at the international courts for the violations committed against them.

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