Hamas called on the United Nations to annul its vote partitioning British-mandated Palestine on Thursday, the 60th anniversary of the historic decision that permitted Israel’s creation. “The Hamas movement demands the United Nations to immediately reverse itself on its resolution,” the Islamists said in a statement released 60 years to the day that the world body voted to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. “It is not shameful to correct its mistake,” it said. “Hamas puts (on the UN) the entire responsibility of the Resolution 181 vote that permitted the partition of Palestine and everything that followed it, and all the suffering and catastrophes suffered by our people.”
The resolution “displaced Palestinians from their land and brought forth the invasion of the occupiers and Western forces.” Hamas said it “does not recognise any international resolution that neglects Palestinian rights and principles, starting with the right of return for refugees and the creation of an independent and sovereign state with Jerusalem as its capital.” |