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image located by William Garrison, 16 October 2023
Source: flag seller
in Gaza
A Palestinian flag with an image of the octagon-shaped golden "Dome of the Rock" (Qubbat al-Sakhrah) with an Arabic-language slogan ("filastin kuluha hi al-quds") on the bottom green stripe that translates as "All of Palestine is Jerusalem"; c. 2015. Occasionally, Palestinians will claim that some Jewish group is planning on destroying this shrine that covers a rock, from which Muslims believe their prophet Mohammed ascended into heaven ("Jannah") and returned during his horse-flying "Night Journey" (al-’Isrā’ wal-Miʿrāj) c. 621 C.E. Some Jewish groups seek to tear down this Islamic shrine and replace it with their "Third Temple". During the 1950s Jerusalem was divided into a West Jerusalem (Israel) and an East Jerusalem (Jordan), until June 1967 when Israel captured it during the "Six Day War" and re-united the city under its control. Many Palestinians desire that E. Jerusalem be returned to them for their future national capital. This flag is paraded about to remind Palestinians that Muslim-oriented Palestine and E. Jerusalem are both politically and religiously inseparable.
William Garrison, 16 October 2023
image located by William Garrison, 7 November 2023
Source:
https://www.haaretz.com
A variant of the national flag of Palestine but with an image of the golden
"Dome of the Rock" ("Qubbat as-Sakhra") and the Arabic slogan "nahin cadmon"
which translates roughly as: "We Are Coming" (i.e.:" Palestinians will liberate
the Sakhra & Jerusalem from Israeli control"); c. Oct. 2023. The article was
unclear where this photo was taken; perhaps somewhere in Lebanon.
William Garrison, 7 November 2023
image located by William Garrison, 22 February 2024
A green-field Muslim/Palestinian flag that depicts the golden "Dome of the Rock" [Qubbat as-Sakhra] in the middle, with an Arabic slogan at the top that is a Muslim's "Declaration of Faith" [shahada]: "There is no deity but Allah ... Mohammad is the messenger of Allah", and at the bottom an Arabic slogan: "We are here for you, oh, Aqsa". The dome (qubbat) protects the rock (sakhra) that the Muslim prophet Mohammad placed a ladder upon to climb into Heaven, spoke with other prophets and Allah, and returned. This Muslim shrine sits upon the overall al-Aqsa esplanade atop the "Temple Mount" [Haram al-Sharif] in Jerusalem. "Al-Aqsa" means the "furthest mosque" from where Mohammad lived in Medina, Arabia, c. 630 CE. Essentially, this flag proclaims a Muslim's right to "be at" or "control" the Sakhra rock near their "furthest mosque" [al-Masjid al-Aqsa], and indirectly the Temple Mount, as well as Jerusalem; c. 5 Nov. 2015.
Source:
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/
William Garrison, 22
February 2024