The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing support for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population

Palestinians marked 104 years since the infamous Balfour Declaration, the crime Britain had committed in 1917 when it issued a letter of 67 words that led to the creation of the Zionist Jewish settler cancer on the land of Palestine.

The declaration was contained in a letter dated 2 November 1917 from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

Later it was included in the terms of the British Mandate for Palestine after the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire. That mandate system, set up by the Allied powers, was a veiled form of colonialism and occupation.

The Balfour Declaration resulted in significant upheaval in the lives of Palestinians and it is generally viewed as one of the main catalysts of the Nakba – the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 – and the conflict that has ensued with the Zionist state of Israel.

104 years on, the Palestinian people continue to call on Britain to apologize for Balfour’s crime, which has led to their displacement from their homeland and native areas and made them endure different forms of ongoing suffering and aggression at the hands of the Zionist regime, its forces, and settlers. (ILKHA)