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Temple Mount/al-Aqsa flags, Jerusalem

All of Palestine is Jerusalem
We Are Coming
We are here for you, Oh, Aqsa
Friends of Al-Aqsa

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All of Palestine is Jerusalem

image located by William Garrison, 16 October 2023
Source: flag seller in Gaza

A Palestinian flag with an image of the octagon-shaped golden "Dome of the Rock" (Qubbat al-Sakhrah) with an Arabic-language slogan ("filastin kuluha hi al-quds") on the bottom green stripe that translates as "All of Palestine is Jerusalem"; c. 2015. Occasionally, Palestinians will claim that some Jewish group is planning on destroying this shrine that covers a rock, from which Muslims believe their prophet Mohammed ascended into heaven ("Jannah") and returned during his horse-flying "Night Journey" (al-’Isrā’ wal-Miʿrāj) c. 621 C.E. Some Jewish groups seek to tear down this Islamic shrine and replace it with their "Third Temple". During the 1950s Jerusalem was divided into a West Jerusalem (Israel) and an East Jerusalem (Jordan), until June 1967 when Israel captured it during the "Six Day War" and re-united the city under its control. Many Palestinians desire that E. Jerusalem be returned to them for their future national capital. This flag is paraded about to remind Palestinians that Muslim-oriented Palestine and E. Jerusalem are both politically and religiously inseparable.

William Garrison, 16 October 2023

We Are Coming

image located by William Garrison, 7 November 2023
Source: https://www.haaretz.com

A variant of the national flag of Palestine but with an image of the golden "Dome of the Rock" ("Qubbat as-Sakhra") and the Arabic slogan "nahin cadmon" which translates roughly as: "We Are Coming" (i.e.:" Palestinians will liberate the Sakhra & Jerusalem from Israeli control"); c. Oct. 2023. The article was unclear where this photo was taken; perhaps somewhere in Lebanon.
William Garrison, 7 November 2023

We are here for you, Oh, Aqsa

image located by William Garrison, 22 February 2024

A green-field Muslim/Palestinian flag that depicts the golden "Dome of the Rock" [Qubbat as-Sakhra] in the middle, with an Arabic slogan at the top that is a Muslim's "Declaration of Faith" [shahada]: "There is no deity but Allah ... Mohammad is the messenger of Allah", and at the bottom an Arabic slogan: "We are here for you, oh, Aqsa". The dome (qubbat) protects the rock (sakhra) that the Muslim prophet Mohammad placed a ladder upon to climb into Heaven, spoke with other prophets and Allah, and returned. This Muslim shrine sits upon the overall al-Aqsa esplanade atop the "Temple Mount" [Haram al-Sharif] in Jerusalem. "Al-Aqsa" means the "furthest mosque" from where Mohammad lived in Medina, Arabia, c. 630 CE. Essentially, this flag proclaims a Muslim's right to "be at" or "control" the Sakhra rock near their "furthest mosque" [al-Masjid al-Aqsa], and indirectly the Temple Mount, as well as Jerusalem; c. 5 Nov. 2015.

Source: https://english.alarabiya.net/News/
William Garrison, 22 February 2024

Friends of Al-Aqsa

image located by William Garrison, 22 September 2024
Source: https://www.foa.org.uk/campaign/handsoffalaqsa

The national flag of Palestine with the slogan "FOA" on the middle white stripe. "FOA" means "Friends of Al-Aqsa", a Palestinian movement claiming that Israel intends to expel Muslims from worshiping atop the "Temple Mount" (Haram as-Sharif), which is also referred to with the shorter moniker of just "Al-Aqsa" -- in tribute to the "Al-Aqsa mosque" that is atop the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. Since the June 1967 "Six Day War" the Israeli government has not seized outright control of the Temple Mount, but has permitted an Islamic "waqf" (religious governing agency) to administer all religious activities atop the as-Sharif/Mount esplanade. During specified times, non-Muslims may walk around the al-Aqsa perimeter, but Jews may not pray there - although some do so surreptitiously when Israeli guards become lax in enforcing the ban. Some conservative Jews campaign that Muslim buildings atop the Temple Mount must be removed immediately in order for the Jewish "Third Temple" to be built there. However, some Orthodox Jews argue that Jews should not visit the Temple Mount until it has been religiously purified. This flag was seen in a Palestinian rally in London in Sept. 2023. The FOA has a website at https://www.foa.org.uk/campaign/handsoffalaqsa

William Garrison, 22 September 2024