Use | National flag |
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Proportion | 1:2 |
Adopted | 28 May 1964PLO) 15 November 1988 (State of Palestine) | (
Design | A horizontal tricolour of black, white, and green; with a red triangle based at the hoist. |
Use | Presidential standard[1] |
Proportion | 1:2 |
Design | A horizontal tricolour of black, white, and green; with a red triangle based at the hoist charged with the coat of arms above a golden wreath of laurel leaves in the fly end. |
Use | State flag |
Design | A horizontal tricolour of black, white, and green; with a red triangle based at the hoist charged with the coat of arms above two crossed white swords in the upper hoist corner. |
The flag of Palestine (Arabic: علم فلسطين ʿalam Filasṭīn) is a tricolour of three equal horizontal stripes—black, white, and green from top to bottom—overlaid by a red triangle issuing from the hoist. It displays the pan-Arab colours, which were first combined in the current style during the 1916 Arab Revolt, and represents the Palestinian people and the State of Palestine.
Used since the 1920s, the Palestinian flag's overall design is almost identical to the flag of the Arab Revolt, with the pan-Arab colours representing four Arab dynasties: the Hashemites (red), the Umayyads (white), the Abbasids (black), and the Fatimids (green). It was flown during the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine and has also been used extensively in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, especially after it was officially adopted as the Palestinian people's flag when the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was founded in 1964. Since 2015, the State of Palestine has observed a Flag Day every 30 September to commemorate the first time that the Palestinian flag was flown at the Headquarters of the United Nations that year.[2] Since 2021, the Palestinian flag has been lowered to half-mast every 2 November to lament the Balfour Declaration, which was issued by the United Kingdom during World War I to express British support for a "national home for the Jewish people" in what was then Ottoman Palestine.[3]
During the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel occupied the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, where it then outlawed the Palestinian flag. This ban remained in place until the early 1990s, when Israel and the PLO exchanged the Letters of Mutual Recognition and subsequently signed the Oslo Accords, thus legalizing the Palestinian flag.[4] In practice, however, although the Palestinian flag is flown by the Palestinian National Authority, it is still routinely confiscated by Israeli authorities throughout the Israeli-occupied territories.[5] In 2023, Amnesty International released a report condemning new Israeli government restrictions on displays of the Palestinian flag as "an attempt to legitimize racism" by suppressing "a symbol of unity and resistance to Israel’s unlawful occupation" in the Palestinian territories.[6] Owing to the mutual colour scheme, it is also common for a watermelon symbol to be displayed in lieu of the tricolour flag, as is the case in Palestinian artwork. Though it was originally used to defy Israeli restrictions on the flag between 1967 and 1993, the watermelon symbol continues to be used today as an expression of Palestinian nationalism worldwide.[5]
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