A ban of Palestinian flags, the withholding of Palestinian tax revenues, and a travel ban on the Palestinian foreign minister are just some of Israel’s new hardline polices.
While theflags 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.
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. Last week, a Palestinian prisoner serving time for the murder of an Israeli soldier in 1983 waved a Palestinian flag when he was released from prison, which prompted the ban.
The crackdown follows one of the harshest anti-Palestinian weeks in recent memory, with the new Netanyahu government seemingly determined to squeeze the PLO. On Friday, Israel withheld almost $40 million in Palestinian tax revenues, which are not earmarked for victims of Palestinian militant attacks.
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