Palestinian Balfour Declaration protests in pictures
Thousands of Palestinians took to the streets to demand an apology from the United Kingdom for endorsing the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine. The 1917 document helped lay the legal foundation for today's Israel.
'A century of dispossession'
In Ramallah, around 3,000 people marched from the city center to the British Consulate, many of them carrying banners with slogans such as "100 years of dispossession." It was on this day hundred years ago that Britain promised to Zionists to create a Jewish home in what is now Israel.
'Original sin'
Palestinians blame Britain for their current plight. They see the declaration as the original sin, that resulted in "nakba," or catastrophe, the mass displacement that resulted from the war surrounding Israel's creation in 1948.
Protests in East Jerusalem
Demonstrators in East Jeruslaem held a sit-in in front of the British Consulate, handing letters to diplomats. They called on Britain to apologize to the Palestinian people. Israeli police quelled the protesters when some raised the Palestinian flag.
Er Sorry!
A woman wearing a mask of Queen Elizabeth stands next to an apology inscribed by the elusive British artist Bansky in Bethlehem, West Bank.
Balfour Declaration
The 67-word letter written by then-British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour. It declared sympathy with "Jewish Zionist aspirations" and "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." The 1917 declaration served as the basis for the British Mandate of Palestine, which was approved in 1920 by the League of Nations.
Recognition for Jewish 'home'
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu marked the anniversary in London at a dinner attended by UK Prime Minister Theresa May. Israel views the document as the first international recognition granted to the Jewish people's desire to return to its historic homeland.