Egyptians to hold Nakba Day demo

Egyptian activists are to stage a demonstration outside the British embassy in Cairo to mark the 65th anniversary of the Nakba Day, also known as the Day of Catastrophe.

Pro-Palestine campaigners have planned to take part in a protest rally outside the UK™s diplomatic mission in the Egyptian capital on Wednesday, May 15 to condemn crimes committed against Palestinians due to the UK™s colonial policy in the region between 1917 and 1948, Al-Youm Al-Sabe reported.

The activists will also hand a letter in English to the British ambassador, criticizing the UK™s pro-Zionist policy.

Meanwhile, some 60 Egyptian figures have signed a statement demanding the British government not to loan the original Balfour Declaration to the Israeli regime to be shown in a Tel Aviv museum.

Earlier in April, the British National Library announced a decision to give Israel permission to exhibit the original copy of the Balfour Declaration in Tel Aviv.

The establishment of the Zionist entity could have been impossible without Arthur Balfour, Britain™s foreign secretary from 1916 to 1919, as in a letter in November 1917, he singlehandedly set the wheels in motion for the creation of Israel 31 years later.

On May 15, 1948, Israeli forces displaced some 700,000 Palestinians, forcing them to flee to different neighboring countries.

Israeli soldiers also wiped nearly 500 Palestinian villages and towns off the map, leaving an estimated total of 4.7 million Palestinian refugees and their descendants dreaming of an eventual return to their ancestral homeland more than six decades later.

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