Palestine tycoon's 83-year search for UK atonement

Palestinian industrialist Munib Al Masri’s eyes watered as he stepped out of Downing Street, the emotions of an eight-decade search for justice etched on his face.

The 91-year-old had lived through the British occupation of Palestine and, aged 13, was shot at by British officers during a protest, causing lifelong pain.

Decades later, he was outside the Prime Minister’s residence, handing over a 400-page legal petition seeking an apology from the UK for its historical wrongs in Palestine.

This includes the tens of thousands of Palestinians he saw trickling into his native town of Nablus after they were displaced by the end of the British mandate in 1948, when the Israeli state was proclaimed.

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