Kids holding signs with maps erasing Israel on an official PLO page

Images and text posted on the Facebook page of the PLO Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs

The images show a demonstration in Hebron. In the first image, protesters are seen in the middle holding an orange poster featuring the PA map of “Palestine” that presents all of Israel as “Palestine” together with the PA areas.

Text on orange poster: “We are determined to build the homeland Palestine”

Other protesters to the left are holding a white poster also featuring the PA map of “Palestine.”

Text on white poster: “Years and decades [have passed], and in the end we will return to Palestine, the Education Directorate (i.e., under the PA Ministry of Education)”

Yet more protesters to the right are holding a yellow poster.

Text on yellow poster: “One hundred years after the [Balfour] Promise (i.e., Declaration) we are renewing [our pledge] to Palestine, the Education Directorate”

The second image shows a close-up of the white poster.

Posted text: “#Freedom_carnival

The city of Hebron”

[Facebook page of the PLO Supreme Council for Sport and Youth Affairs, May 30, 2017]

The Balfour Declaration of Nov. 2, 1917 was a letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Baron Rothschild stating that "His Majesty's government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people." In 1922, the League of Nations adopted this and made the British Mandate "responsible for putting into effect the declaration," which led to the UN vote in favor of partitioning Mandatory Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state in 1947. In response, Britain ended its mandate on May 15, 1948, and the Palestinian Jews, who accepted the Partition Plan, declared the independent State of Israel. The Palestinian Arabs rejected the plan and together with 7 Arab states attacked Israel, in what is now known as Israel's War of Independence.