GAZA, (PIC)-- The higher committee to commemorate the Nakba (Palestine usurpation at the hands of Zionist gangs in 1948) has asked Britain to apologize to the Palestinian people for issuing the notorious Balfour Declaration that offered Jews a homeland in Palestine.

The committee held a press conference on Sunday on the occasion of the approaching date of the Nakba, which means catastrophe in Arabic, affirming the Palestinian people's right to return to their homeland from which they were forcibly expelled in its capacity as a legitimate and legal right.

The committee described the right of return as "inalienable" and would never be relinquished even if negotiators signed on agreements surrendering it.

The people of Palestine will never give up constants including the right of return despite the elapse of six decades on the Nakba, the committee said, noting that the Palestinians during those decades were the victims of massacres, displacement and siege.

It stressed that resistance was a strategic option for the Palestinian people to liberate the entire land of historical Palestine, and said that national unity was the first step towards liberation.

The committee asked PA chief Mahmoud Abbas to end his negotiations with Israel and to return to inter-Palestinian dialogue.

It also announced a series of activities to commemorate the anniversary in a number of Arab and European countries hosting Palestinian refugees.