Palestinian petitions UK for apology over alleged abuses during British rule

Munib al-Masri, who says he was shot and wounded by British troops as a boy in 1944. Photograph: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP/Getty Images

A Palestinian businessman and former politician is to petition the UK government for an apology for abuses in the region during the period of British rule in the first half of the 20th century.

Munib al-Masri, 88, a close friend and supporter of the late Palestinian political leader Yasser Arafat, has with two international lawyers drawn up a 300-page dossier of evidence alleging abuses by the British between 1917 and 1948, the BBC reported.