Although it is not a crime to fly the Palestinian flag under Israeli law, in some cases police and soldiers have the right to remove them.
Demonstrators hold Palestinian flags in front of an Israeli soldier in Qalqilya in the Israeli-occupied West BankIsrael's far-right national security minister has ordered police to ban Palestinian flags from public spaces in a symbolically fraught move by the new government.
Under Israeli law, flying the Palestinian flag is not a crime but police and soldiers have the right to remove them in cases where they deem there is a threat to public order. The move marks the new hardline government's latest retaliation after a Palestinian push for the UN's highest judicial body to give its opinion on Israel's 55-year military occupation of the West Bank.
In 2014, an attorney general ruled that an ordinance decades earlier granted police the authority to confiscate a flag if it results in disruption of public order or breach of peace, or is done in support of terrorism.One group said Mr Ben-Gvir's order falsely implies that any public display of the Palestinian flag is itself such a disruption.
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