🇵🇸 The colours of Palestine
3 meanings recorded.
Palestine’s flag features black, white, and green stripes with a red triangle at the hoist. These are the pan-Arab colours, each linked to a historic Arab dynasty. The flag is a symbol of Palestinian identity, unity, and the wider Arab heritage.
Where no official value is given, the swatch shows the colour family, not the exact shade.
- The flag uses the four pan-Arab colours.
- A red triangle sits at the hoist side of the flag.
- The flag’s design echoes the 1916 Arab Revolt banner.
- Palestinian Flag Day is marked on 30 September.
- The flag was made official for the State of Palestine in 1988.
The colours of the flag of Palestine
The Palestinian flag consists of three horizontal stripes—black at the top, followed by white and then green. A red triangle sits on the hoist side. These four colours are known as the pan-Arab colours, each chosen to recall a different Arab dynasty from history. The flag’s design is closely tied to the Arab Revolt of 1916, and it has come to stand for Palestinian peoplehood and their connection to the broader Arab world. The meanings of the colours are rooted in Arab history rather than in official statements from the Palestinian government.
How the colours were chosen of Palestine
The flag’s colours and layout come from the banner used during the 1916 Arab Revolt. There are several stories about who first chose the colours, including an Arab literary group in Istanbul and the Young Arab Society in Paris. By the early 1920s, a version of the flag was in use in Palestine, and it became a symbol during the 1936–1939 uprising. The Palestine Liberation Organization made it official in 1964, and later, the flag was adopted for the State of Palestine in 1988. Over time, the order of the stripes was adjusted, but the core colours stayed the same.
Official shades and rules of Palestine
In 1964, the Palestine Liberation Organization set out precise standards for the flag’s design, including its proportions and the arrangement of the stripes. The flag’s ratio is 1:2, and the black and green stripes swapped places at that time. No official colour codes are provided in the sources.
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What colours mean in Palestine
Customs vary by region, faith and family; these are the meanings most often recorded.
The watermelon, red, green, white and black like the flag, became a stand-in for it in art and on social media at times when showing the flag was restricted.
Politics and protestNature and renewalPrideSource: Watermelon as a Palestinian symbolThe flag has black, white and green bands with a red triangle, the colours of the Arab Revolt of 1916. Green is also the colour of Hamas banners, and yellow of Fatah.
Politics and protestSource: Flag of PalestineThe black and white keffiyeh with its fishnet pattern is the sign of Palestinian identity. Yasser Arafat wore it draped over one shoulder.
Politics and protestPrideSource: Palestinian keffiyehNothing matches those filters yet. Take one off, or check back: new colours are written every day.