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New Bibi Government Is Squeezing Palestinians to Verge of ‘Collapse’<!-- wp:html --><p>Mohamad Torokman/Reuters</p> <p>Palestinian flags have been banned in public spaces in <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/netanyahus-big-lie-will-end-rule-of-law-in-israel">Israel</a> and will be forcibly removed if they are “perceived” to <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/israel-is-now-a-province-of-red-state-america">threaten public order</a>, according to a new directive signed by Israel’s new national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.</p> <p>While the <a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/biden-walks-a-tightrope-on-human-rights-with-israel-palestine-saudi-arabia-during-his-middle-east-trip">Palestine Liberation Organization or PLO</a> flags are not officially outlawed under current Israel law thanks to the Oslo Accords signed in Washington, D.C. in 1993, Ben-Gvir, who heads a far-right ultra-nationalist party in the new government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, implied they should be. “Today I directed the Israel police to enforce the prohibition of flying any PLO flag that shows identification with a terrorist organization from the public sphere and to stop any incitement against the State of Israel,” Ben-Gvir wrote on Twitter Sunday.</p> <p>Palestinian flags were also forcibly removed last May during the funeral of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, where her pallbearers were beaten. She was killed by Israeli security forces as she covered a military raid on the Jenin refugee camp. </p> <p><a href="https://www.thedailybeast.com/new-bibi-government-is-squeezing-palestinians-to-verge-of-collapse?source=articles&via=rss">Read more at The Daily Beast.</a></p><!-- /wp:html -->

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Palestinian flags have been banned in public spaces in Israel and will be forcibly removed if they are “perceived” to threaten public order, according to a new directive signed by Israel’s new national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir.

While the Palestine Liberation Organization or PLO flags are not officially outlawed under current Israel law thanks to the Oslo Accords signed in Washington, D.C. in 1993, Ben-Gvir, who heads a far-right ultra-nationalist party in the new government led by Benjamin Netanyahu, implied they should be. “Today I directed the Israel police to enforce the prohibition of flying any PLO flag that shows identification with a terrorist organization from the public sphere and to stop any incitement against the State of Israel,” Ben-Gvir wrote on Twitter Sunday.

Palestinian flags were also forcibly removed last May during the funeral of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, where her pallbearers were beaten. She was killed by Israeli security forces as she covered a military raid on the Jenin refugee camp.

Read more at The Daily Beast.

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