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![[Palestine]](../images/p/ps.gif)
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image by Zoltan Horvath, 25 August 2024
Official Name: السلطة الوطنية الفلسطينية [As-Sulta Al-Wataniyya Al-Filastīniyya], Palestinian National Authority
Short Form: فلسطين [Filastīn], Palestine
Flag Adopted: between 1964 and 1974, modified 2006
Coat of Arms Adopted: unknown, after 1964
See also:
The Palestinian flag represents all Palestinian Arab aspirations regardless of party. It belongs to the Arab Revolt grouping of Arab flags and is a deliberate copy of the Jordanian flag (minus the star), which presumably represents the historical link to 1920-23 when Palestine and Transjordan were one territory. I think the flag was adopted in 1964 at the creation of the PNC and PLO, possibly a little later. It was definitely in use by 1974 when the Arab League declared the PLO the sole representative of all Palestinians and the UN granted the PLO observer status. There was no single Palestinian authority prior to 1964 that could have created a flag.
T.F. Mills, 13 December 1995
There are basically three of our flags. The Common Flag is flown on a daily basis in representative offices such as ours, and is a triband (from top to bottom: black, white, green) with red triangle pointing to the middle of the white band. The other two are the Official and the Presidential flags. (...) In reference to the colour, this remains uncertain as there are no real specific colours. The green for instance could vary from turquoise to forest green.Al Bitar (Palestinian Embassy at Bucharest), 15 February 1999
The Flag Law No. (5) of 2006 defines the flag, but there is no any color
specification:
http://muqtafi.birzeit.edu/pg/getleg.asp?id=15212
Zoltan Horvath,
25 August 2024
The protocol manual for the
London 2012 Olympics (Flags and Anthems Manual
London 2012 [loc12]) provides recommendations
for national flag designs. Each
NOC was sent an image of the flag,
including the PMS shades, for their approval by LOCOG. Once this was obtained, LOCOG produced
a 60 x 90 cm version of the flag for further approval. So, while these specs may
not be the official, government, version of each flag, they are certainly what
the NOC believed the flag to be.
For Palestine: PMS 032 red, 355 green and black. The vertical flag is simply the
horizontal version turned 90 degrees clockwise.
Ian Sumner, 10 October 2012
There is no official source that gives exact colors of the national flag;
these are all approximate colors from these documented sources.
The Flag
Manual - Beijing 2008 gives Pantone colors: PMS 032 (red), PMS 355 (green), and
Black.
The Album des Pavillons 2000 [pay00]
(Corr. No. 3.) gives approximate colors in Pantone and CMYK systems:
Red:
Pantone 186c, CMYK 0-90-80-5
Green: Pantone 362c, CMYK 80-0-100-10
The
Album des Pavillons 2023 already specifies the colors of the flags in three
color systems:
Red: Pantone 186c, CMYK 10-100-74-2, RGB 210-16-52
Yellow:
Pantone 116c, CMYK 0-19-93-0, RGB 255-206-0
Green: Pantone 362c, CMYK
80-12-100-2, RGB 40-151-40
Vexilla Mundi gives colors in Pantone
system: PMS Black, PMS White, PMS 356C (green), and PMS 186C (red).
Wikipedia illustrates the
flag, gives construction details, and gives color values as follows:
Red:
CMYK 0-82-77-6, Hex #EE2A35, RGB 238-42-53
Black: CMYK 100-100-100-99, Hex #000000,
RGB 0-0-0
White: CMYK 0-0-0-0, Hex #FFFFFF, RGB 255-255-255
Green: CMYK 100-0-64-40,
Hex #009736, RGB 0-151-54
Flag Color Codes gives the following color values:
Red: Hex # E4312b, RGB 228-49-43, CMYK 0-90-76-0, Pantone 032, RAL 3028
Black:
Hex #000000, RGB 0-0-0, CMYK 0-0-0-100, Pantone Black, RAL 9005
White: Hex #FFFFFF, RGB 255-255-255, CMYK 0-0-0-0
Green: Hex #149954, RGB 20-153-84,
CMYK 93-0-100-0, Pantone 355, RAL 6032
Zoltan Horvath, 25 August 2024
![[Construction Sheet - Palestine]](../images/p/ps'.gif)
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image by Željko Heimer, 21 January 2012The pre-2006 flag had the triangle prescribed to reach fly-wise 1/2 of its width (base), i.e. 1/4 of the flag length. The 2006 legislation changed the flag description so that the triangle is reaching 1/3 of the flag length. The construction sheet differs in that the dimension indicated by 3 is replaced with 4 (and then everything should be halved :)
Željko Heimer, 21 January 2012
An article by Jan Oskar Engene in the Autumn 2007 issue of Nordisk Flaggkontakt [nfk07a], the journal of the Nordic Flag Society, reports two acts adopted by the Palestinian National Authority in late 2005 and early 2006, describing the flag and regulating its use. Jos Poels has located the documents online (machine-translated titles):
Jan Oskar Engene and Željko Heimer, 24 November 2007 and 21 January 2012
![[Vertical Flag (Palestine)]](../images/p/ps_ver.gif) 2:1 |
The online edition of the New York Times has a collection of photos from President Arafat's burial in Ramallah. (...) It appears that vertically positioned PS flags are – at least in this case – positioned so that the black stripe is on the right, as seen by a viewer. (This seems to make sense in a culture reading from right to left.) A photo of a Palestinian flag displayed vertically; as usual, the black (top) stripe is to the "sinister" (observer's right) in contrast to European practice. Albert Kirsch, 17 November 2005 |
![[inverted flag]](../images/p/ps!nb.gif)
image by BlinxCat, 28 March 2024
Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Palestine)
has a flag of Palestine that was used from 1948–1964, and it appears to be the
same as the moder national flag but inverted/upside down. Does anyone have
any information about this? Was this a real thing?
BlinxCat, 28
March 2024
![[inverted flag]](../images/p/ps!nb1.jpg)
![[inverted flag]](../images/p/ps!nb2.jpg)
images located by William Garrison, 31 March 2024
Here are two (2) photos from a January 1976 Palestinian "Land Day" demonstration
in Vancouver, BC (Canada) where some bell-bottom-jeans guy is carrying a
Palestinian flag that shows the black stripe is on the bottom. Now, as this is a
black-and-white photo, I am guessing that the lighter-colored stripe on top is
green and the darker-colored stripe on the bottom is black.
I think this
flag-carrier was simply carrying the flag upside down, rather than trying to
project some official Palestinian statement that he was carrying the flag
properly. But I think that I have found 2 photos of the black-stripe-on-bottom
Palestinian flag being carried that way that you were looking for. I'll give the
flag-carrier some slack here - back then probably few knew what the Palestinian
flag even looked like, let alone knowing how to properly carry one. And in the
#1 photo it appears that TWO Palestinian flags are being carried with the
black-stripe being on the bottom!
#1 flag source:
https://twitter.com/jasminders_/status/1774264566362566685/photo/4
#2
flag source: about 20% the way down the page at
https://cpavancouver.org/2024/03/commemorating-land-day/
Bill
Garrison, 31 March 2024
I would like to offer a correction to the headline of the Palestinian entry. As far as I know,
the Arabic article "al-" is not attached to the name "Filisteen."
There are certain place and county names which are preceded by "al-"
(the equivalent of "the" in English), but Palestine is not one of them.
A few other corrections – I think "Filisteen" is a better transcription
(as used later in the adjective: "al-filistinieh"), but perhaps it would be best
to consult an Arabic speaker, since there are so many dialects and variants in pronunciation.
In "al-sulta" the first "l" should be omitted – "a-sulta" or "as-sulta."
This "l" is written but isn't pronounced, because there is an assimilation of the "l" to the "s."
Dror Kamir, 27 April 2003
