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Press Statement
On the 109th anniversary of the ominous Balfour Declaration: Our people will remain attached to their land and holy sites, defending them until liberation and return, and the occupation's crimes and colonial-settler schemes to obliterate our national identity and our people's historic rights will not succeed.
The anniversary of the ominous "Balfour Declaration" comes this year at a time when the occupation is escalating its aggression and crimes in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and occupied Jerusalem, as our people in Gaza live a true tragedy and continuation of the genocide, while our Palestinian people in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem face dangerous displacement and Judaization projects that violate all international laws and conventions, amid international silence and inaction to end this escalating Zionist terrorism.
109 years have passed since the greatest sin perpetrated by the British government against an entire people in modern history through the so-called "Balfour Declaration," which is a promise from those who do not own to those who do not deserve, and the colonialist mentality still governs this usurping entity and its fascist government to this very day, through the policies of killing, siege, starvation, and displacement committed against our people in Gaza, and in the cities, villages, and refugee camps across the occupied West Bank.
We, in the Hamas Movement on the 109th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration, affirm the following:
First: The "Balfour Declaration" and the political sins that followed it against our people, rights, and historic land, and the crimes of killing, forced displacement, ethnic cleansing, and deportation that the occupation has committed since that ominous promise, will not succeed in obliterating our people's just cause and their legitimate rights. These acts and crimes have no statute of limitations, and will remain a testament to the terrorism of this brutal occupation and its backers.
Second: Achieving national unity based on a unified struggle strategy, in which all Palestinians participate, is the only way to confront the Zionist occupation's schemes and crimes against our land, people, and Islamic and Christian holy sites.
Third: The Palestinian refugees' right of return to their homes from which they were forcibly displaced is a firm, legitimate, and legal right that will not be relinquished or compromised.
Fourth: We call upon our Arab and Islamic Ummah, and all free peoples of the world, to take serious action on various levels to put an end to the occupation's escalating terrorism, work to isolate it internationally, and support the steadfastness of our people and their legitimate struggle until liberation, return, and the establishment of their fully sovereign Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
Fifth: We call for serious and effective international action to pressure the occupation government to stop its crimes and terrorism, work to prosecute its leaders as war criminals before international courts, and exert every possible effort to enable our people to obtain their legitimate rights, notably liberating their land and returning to it.
May Almighty Allah have mercy on our righteous martyrs who fell throughout our Palestinian people's struggle, grant a speedy recovery for the wounded and sick, and an imminent freedom for our prisoners. We hail our great Palestinian people wherever they are and call upon them for further unity and solidarity, and to continue the path of steadfastness and resistance until our rights are reclaimed and our land is liberated and our people return to it.
Islamic Resistance Movement – Hamas
2 Nov. 2026
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