NEW: Palestine marks Balfour Declaration

Online Reporter

Palestine marked the 105th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration on Wednesday.

The declaration was a letter written by British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lionel Walter Rothschild to express the British government’s support for a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

It marked the beginning of the process of a colonisation project by the Zionist Organisation agreed to by the imperialist power, United Kingdom, on November 2, 1917.

On Wednesday, the Embassy of the State of Palestine in Harare flew the Palestinian flag at half-mast in remembrance of the Balfour Declaration.

In a statement, the Embassy of the State of Palestine in Harare said:

“This is where the story begins: ‘A representative of one nation, who has no right, unlawfully declares the country of another nation belongs to a third’

“It is a day to remind the world how a Zionist movement was initiated to illegally occupy a
sovereign land of Palestinians with no regards to the rights of the indigenous inhabitants and till today has been violating all international laws and ignoring every single UN resolution.”