Yesterday, Sunday, the Israeli Minister of National Security, Itamar Ben Gvir, said that he had instructed the police to remove Palestinian flags from public places, and this is the latest escalating step taken by the new minister, who stormed the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque about a week ago.
Ben Gvir described waving the Palestinian flag as an act that supports terrorism, even though Israeli law does not explicitly prohibit Palestinian flags.
The Israeli minister said - in a statement - "violators of the law cannot wave terrorist flags, incite and encourage terrorism, so I ordered the removal of flags supporting terrorism from public places and the cessation of incitement against Israel."
This comes in the wake of the release of Karim Younes;
One of the oldest Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails last Thursday.
Yunus waved the Palestinian flag as he was greeted in his town of Ara, inside the Green Line.
Ben Gvir's decision came as part of a series of escalatory measures taken by Benjamin Netanyahu's new government.
Sanctions were imposed on the Palestinian Authority after the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling on the International Court of Justice to give a legal opinion on the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
As for the decisions taken by Ben Gvir, they included tightening restrictions on the visits of Arab members of the Knesset (parliament) to Palestinian prisoners.
The official Israeli Broadcasting Authority said that Ben Gvir informed Knesset Speaker Amir Ohana to cancel the mechanism by which any Knesset member can visit the prisoners.