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Palestine

The Palestinian flag is derived from the flag of Arab nationalists during world war I during the 1916-1918 Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire.

The flag is a rectangular panel consisting of three equal horizontal stripes: the upper black, middle white and lower green, with a red isosceles triangle at the pole edge.

According to the "Palestinian mission in Germany", black is the color of the Abassids, white is the color of the Umayyads, red is the color of the Kharijites, the conquerors of Andalusia and the Hashemites, green is the color of the Fatimids and Islam[1]. All four colors are known as pan-Arab colors.

The origin of the flag is a matter of dispute and mythology.

According to one version, the colors were chosen by the "Literary club" of Arab nationalists in Constantinople in 1909 and were based on one of the poems of the 13th-century Arab poet Safi ad-DIN al-hilli. According to another — the authorship belongs to the "Youth Arab society", founded in Paris in 1911. On the third — the flag was designed by the British diplomat sir mark Sykes. Whatever the correct version, the flag was used by Hussein Ben Ali in 1917 and came to be regarded as the flag of the Arab national movement in Mashriq. [2]

According to the "Palestinian mission in Germany", the flag was designed by Hussein Ibn Ali[1].