Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir has ordered the removal of Palestinian flags from public spaces. However, the history of Israel’s assault on the Palestinian flag has its roots in the beginning of Gaza occupation
For a long time, the display of Palestinian flags has constantly been under some form of official sanction in Israel.
"It cannot be that lawbreakers wave terrorist flags, incite and encourage terrorism, so I ordered the removal of flags supporting terrorism from the public space and to stop the incitement against Israel," Ben-Gvir said in a statement late on Sunday night. The flying of Palestinian flags was criminalised by Israel when it first occupied Gaza in 1967—coupled with a military order prohibiting artists under occupation from exhibiting any fusion of red, black, white and green, the colours of the flag, in their works in 1981.
As she was carried to her final resting place by pallbearers, with her coffin wrapped in the Palestinian flag, dozens of Israeli police officers started punching and kicking the mourners, almost causing the mourners to drop the casket.
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