Palestinian Flags with Arafat Portrait (Political Parties, Palestine)

Last modified: 2025-02-22 by ian macdonald
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• Description
• Yellow Arafat flags
• Arafat martyr flag
• Other Arafat flags

See also:

• The Shahada or Kalima
• Fatah (Palestine Liberation Movement / Harakat Tahrir Filistin)
• Political Parties (Palestine)
• Palestine

A photo shows a variation of the Palestine flag with a black and white portrait of Yasser Arafat.
Ivan Sarajcic, 31 Dec 2002

image located by William Garrison, 23 May 2021

From https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/05/world/middleeast/fatah-celebration-in-gaza-signals-easing-of-rift-with-hamas.html

Caption: Fatah-Arafat flag, at rally in Gaza, c. Jan. 2013.
William Garrison, 23 May 2021

image located by William Garrison, 3 December 2023

 variety of a yellow vertical Fatah flag with a facial portrait of PA/PLO Pres. Arafat above a white Fatah logo, seen in the Palestinian town of Arurah north of Ramallah; c. 8 July 2023.
Source: https://www.nst.com.my/opinion/leaders/2023/07/929202/nst-leader-saving-palestine 
William Garrison, 3 December 2023

Arafat martyr flag

image located by William Garrison, 11 October 2023

A golden-yellow flag with a black-ink drawing of PLO/PA leader Pres. Arafat. The top Arabic slogan reads in English: "The president, the martyr leader", while the second line by his portrait reads "Yasser Arafat", and the bottom line reads: "We remain in your promise." c. 2010. There is a flag-pole sleeve to the right of Arafat's caricature.
William Garrison, 11 October 2023

Other Arafat flags

image located by William Garrison, 30 November 2023

A flag seen in Al-Ram town in East Jerusalem, a variety of a vertical Arafat-Fatah flag: at the top an image of former PA/PLO Pres. Arafat perhaps looking to the left, in the middle the Fatah logo, below it the Islamic "Declaration of Faith" shahada, and the bottom slogan reads "district Al-Quds" or "Jerusalem District" ; c. January 2023. There is a flag-pole sleeve on the left (hoist) side.
Source: https://www.zenger.news/2023/07/07/see-no-fatah-hear-no-fatah/
William Garrison, 30 November 2023

image located by William Garrison, 3 December 2023

A long horizontal flag with a sunglass and keffiyeh-wearing portrait of PA/PLO Pres. Yasser Arafat, as seen at a PA Pres. Abbas rally in the Manara downtown district in Ramallah, [West Bank] Palestine; c. Sept. 10, 2023.
https://www.gettyimages.com/detail/news-photo/elderly-palestinian-abu-al-saadawi-wears-the-traditional-news-photo
William Garrison, 3 December 2023

image located by Esteban Rivera, 20 January 2025

A vertical variant, but instead of a yellow background, it uses a white background, featuring the portrait of alias "Abu Ammar". Arafat's full name was Mohammed Abdel Rahman Abdel Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa al-Husseini. Mohammed Abdel Rahman was his first name, Abdel Raouf was his father's name and Arafat his grandfather's. Al-Qudwa was the name of his tribe and al-Husseini was that of the clan to which the al-Qudwas belonged. The al-Husseini clan was based in Gaza and is not related to the well-known al-Husayni clan of Jerusalem. Since Arafat was raised in Cairo, the tradition of dropping the Mohammed or Ahmad portion of one's first name was common; notable Egyptians such as Anwar Sadat and Hosni Mubarak did so. However, Arafat dropped Abdel Rahman and Abdel Raouf from his name as well. During the early 1950s, Arafat adopted the name Yasser, and in the early years of Arafat's guerrilla career, he assumed the nom de guerre of Abu Ammar. Both names are related to Ammar ibn Yasir, one of Muhammad's early companions. Although he dropped most of his inherited names, he retained Arafat due to its significance in Islam (source: "Aburish, Said K. (1998). "Arafat: From Defender to Dictator. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing". ISBN 978-1-58234-049-4.", cited here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yasser_Arafat, which in turn is quoted from the original publication here: https://archive.org/details/arafatfromdefend0001abur/page/6/mode/2up).
Esteban Rivera, 20 January 2025