On the 102nd anniversary of the Balfour Declaration the Office of Refugees Affairs of the Islamic Resistance Movement Hamas in Lebanon has called for protecting the Palestinian refugees in all their places of residence and securing a decent life for them.
“The Balfour Declaration the promise of he who doesn’t own to those who don’t deserve is unjust and unacceptable” the office said in a statement on Friday holding Britain and the countries that supported the establishment of Israel responsible for the displacement of the Palestinian people.
The Balfour Declaration is the name of a letter dated 2 November 1917 from Britain’s Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild a leader of the British Jewish community in which he announced support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine.
Hamas’s Office of Refugees Affairs stressed that no one can waive the Palestinian refugees’ right to return to their towns and villages from which they were displaced. “It is an inalienable and sacred right. The Palestinian people will not accept partial solutions such as resettlement alternative homeland and others” it added.
The Office called on the Palestinian people everywhere to adhere to all forms of resistance against the Israeli occupation until they restore all their rights.
It expressed its rejection of all the “racist and unjust” decisions targeting Palestinian refugees especially the latest measures by the Lebanese Ministry of Labor and urged Arab and Muslim countries to mobilize efforts at all levels to support the Palestinian cause.
