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# Unidentified Flags or Ensigns - Page 3 (2021)

## flags submitted in 2021 - Page 3 of 4

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= Some Speculation

### Unidentified Flags on Page 1 Two Unknown Water Sports Pennants Unknown Rowing Club Flag White & Green Striped Flag with Misplaced Canton Unidentified Flag in a Painting Unidentified Swedish Military Colour Unknown Yellow/Red Pennant with Wheel Possible German Federation Navy Ship Flag Unknown flag, Unknown Origin #2 Israeli Independence Day Flag ### Unidentified Flags on Page 2 Flag with Blue Mermaid Flag in Rural Kenya Inquiry on Wallon Flag Unknown Nigerian Flag Israeli 'Jerusalem Day' Flag 2021 Two Unknown Jerusalem Day Flags 2018 Defaced Palestinian Flag Israeli 'Jerusalem Day' Flag 2016 Israeli 'Jerusalem Day' Flag 2019 Jewish Deportees Families? (French) Unknown Flag above Dartington Hall (GB) ### Unidentified Flags on this Page: Odd Cuban flag Unknown Pink Flag (Ukraine) Kriegsmarine Signal Pennant? Unknown Capitol Riot Flag Unknown Purple Flags (Palestine) Unidentified Ministries? (Kuwait) |  | ### Unidentified Flags on Page 4 WWII "Liberation Day" Memorial Vexillum (IT) Taliban flag 2021 Two Unidentified Flags in Afghanistan c2019 Mystery "Pleiades" Flag Unknown Gay Freedom Flag Meaning of a Strange Flag Display Royal Navy Pennant Unknown Hazaristan Flag? (Afghanistan) Marryat Flag Code in Difficult Order Iranian Flag, possibly Iran Atomic Energy Organization? Strange Texas Lighthouse Flag Unrecognized Srpska Flag (Serbia) Identification of An Emblem Requested Flagge KPD Ortsgruppe Marne Unknown Flag on the Tusitala (UK) Unknown pro-Muslim/Islamic Flag Unknown Palestine Authority Flag Unknown Israeli Flag Unknown Israeli "Territory" Flag Color Code for Nazi-German Swastika Flag Old Ship Yard-Long Photo Unidentified Flag Found in My Possessions German Yacht Club Stick Pins Flag Found in a Thrift Store Unknown Tank Unit (Kuwait) Canadian Indigenous People's Flag Georgian Flag with Mikheil Saakashvili ### Unidentified Flags on Page 5 Unidentified Flag Stick Pins Unknown Type Ship and Unknown Flag Unrecognized Pakistan Flag with Army Chief? Unknown Pakistan Army Flag Unknown Iranian National Flag Variation (I.R. Iran) Mystery OPCC Flag Unidentified Green Iraqi PMF Flag Four Unidentified Flags (3 white & 1 green) ### Unidentified Flags on other pages Unidentified flags submitted in 2003 or earlier Unidentified flags submitted in 2004 Unidentified flags submitted in 2005 Unidentified flags submitted in 2006 Unidentified flags submitted in 2007 Unidentified flags submitted in 2008 Unidentified flags submitted in 2009 Unidentified flags submitted in 2010 Unidentified flags submitted in 2011 Unidentified flags submitted in 2012 Unidentified flags submitted in 2013 Unidentified flags submitted in 2014 Unidentified flags submitted in 2015 Unidentified flags submitted in 2016 Unidentified flags submitted in 2017 Unidentified flags submitted in 2018 Unidentified flags submitted in 2019 Unidentified flags submitted in 2020 Unidentified flags submitted in 2022 Unidentified flags submitted in 2023 Unidentified flags submitted in 2024 Unidentified flags submitted in 2025 Unidentified flags submitted in 2026 Index of Unidentified Flags or Ensigns

## 21-35. Odd Cuban flag Some Speculation

Image from Art, 12 July 2021

I am enclosing a drawing of a flag seen in Hialeah, Florida, during a manifestation of Cubans in support of the upheaval in Cuba against the Communist Government. This flag reminds me of the Czech flag.
NB: Flag seen on a Channel 51 Telemundo. report (telemundo com)
Art, 12 July 2021

I've checked many news outlets (including tv and social media) and have not seen this flag reported yet.
In fact, in the news compilation online available yesterday of that local tv station, Telemundo 51, that flag labeled as UFE is nowhere to be found.
Maybe if the original sender can pinpoint the source, we could actually verify if this is indeed a flag used during the recent protests, or if it's simply just a misidentification case based on visual observation.
Other flags have been used though. That is: aside from the Cuban flag (both all throughout Cuba as seen in this video and elsewhere, mainly in Miami), several other flags have been spotted during a rally held yesterday in Miami, in which Mayor of Miami, Francis X. Suárez is seen, over at Calle 8 (8th Street) in an area known as "Little Havana", outside the traditional Versailles Restaurant the traditional concentracion spot for Cuban exiles in the city:

#35a #35b #35c #35d #35e
Images located Esteban Rivera, 12 July 2021

- "Alpha 66" - seen in this video at 00:08 onwards.
- "Brigada 2506" - seen in this video at 00:05 onwards.
- "Cuba Libre" - (obverse) cropped image from the original, located here ( source) - Image attached as #35a.
- "Cuba Libre" - (reverse) cropped image from the original, located here. (source) Image attached as #35b.
- "Cuba Decide" - light blue background flag with a heart and inside, a pen, symbolizing democratic elections, all in white outline. It is a properly registered organization (source) that wants to promote a referendum in order for the country to have truly free elections. The flag is seen on this video by El Nuevo Herald (newspaper) at 0:23 onwards, also on this video (Miami) at 1:54 onwards, and again on this video by ABC (WPLG Local 10) at 0:02 onwards. At first I thought it was the flag for "Organizacion Auténtica" or that it even is/was related to it (based on color composition), but I can't confirm such claim. Images attached as #35c, #35d and #35e , respectively.
- Also, counter protests were quickly setup in Havana by the incumbent government where the M-26 flag is seen, for example on this video by EFE news agency (at 0:29 onwards).

"The 2021 Cuban protests are a series of ongoing protests against the Cuban government of the Communist Party of Cuba that began on 11 July 2021, triggered by shortages of food and medicine and the government's response to the resurgent COVID-19 pandemic in Cuba. The protests have been described as the largest anti-government protests since the Maleconazo in 1994". These new wave of protests may trace its roots back to 2018, when the San Isidro Movement reacted against a recently passed law, Decreto No. 349 de 2018 (Decree No. 349 of 2018) which superseded Decreto 226 de 1997 (Decree No. 249 of 1997) that required all artistic expressions to first be approved by the Ministry of Culture, in yet another clear sign of censorship.
Sources: Lyrics.com and Wikipedia: Cuban Protest.
"The San Isidro Movement is a group of Cuban artists, journalists and academics formed in 2018 to protest against the government's censorship of artistic expression in Cuba. Known as Movimiento San Isidro or MSI, the group's members have staged protests, performances and interventions that have resulted in arrests and retaliatory actions by the Cuban government."
Sources: History of Movimiento San Isidro and Wikipedia: Movimiento San Isidro.
For additional information refer to: Movimiento San Isidro (official website) and MSI Cuba.
Esteban Rivera, 12 July 2021

There are similar designs among these proposals on Ancient Heraldry.
Vanja Poposki, 12 July 2021

## 21-36. Unknown Pink Flag (Ukraine) Tentative ID

Image located by William Garrison, 15 July 2021

I found this Ukrainian Interior Department flag c2019, but I cannot identify it. The caption read: "Ukrainian Interior Minister Arsen Avakov speaks at a news conference in Kyiv in 2019.Credit: Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters".
Source: Haaretz.
William Garrison, 15 July 2021

Image located by Victor Lomantsov, 16 July 2021

The design of this flag is like that used by the Ukrainian military, but what is the green cross for? At Ukraine - Military Rank Flags we can find several similar designs.
So lets turn on some logic. The Ministry of the Internal Affairs oversees five services:

1. The National Guard
2. The National Police
3. The Emergency Service
4. The State Migration Service
5. The State Border Service

In the photo with the Minister of Internal Affairs Arsen Avakov, we see seven flags: five service's flags, the state flag and Flag of the Ministry. All flags are known to us except the one - crimson with green cross and the swords.
As we know, the Border Troops of Ukraine had a crimson flag with green cross without the swords (adopted in 2001) and in 2003 were transformed into the State Border Guard Service and included in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so I think that the mysterious crimson flag with a green cross and crossed swords is a flag of the State Border Guard Service.
However, it is strange that even the official website of the border service so far only has the old flag of 2001 ...
Victor Lomantsov, (Виктор Ломанцов), 16 July 2021

If the current decree is correct, the flag above was carried over to the renamed State Border Guard Service after it was adopted in 2001.
The decree for the flag itself is as follows:

APPENDIX No. 3 to the Decree of the President of Ukraine of August 7, 2001 No. 594/2001

DESCRIPTION of the flag of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine:

The flag of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine is a rectangular crimson banner with an aspect ratio of 2:3. In the center of the banner is an image of the emblem of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. The height of the emblem is 2/3 of the height of the banner, and the width is 1/2 the width of the banner. The diameter of the wreath is 1/4 of the width of the cloth. Both sides of the cloth are identical.
Head of the Administration of the President of Ukraine V. LYTVYN" At the top of the Decree "On the Symbols of the State Border Guard Service", it states the following note: "

> In the Decree and Annexes No. 1 - No. 15 the words "Border Troops", "State Committee for State Border Protection", "Chairman of the State Committee for State Border Protection of Ukraine - Commander of the Border Troops of Ukraine" in all cases are replaced by the words "State Border Guard Service", "Administration of the State Border Guard Service", "Head of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine "in the relevant cases in accordance with Presidential Decree No. 1227/2003 (1227/2003) of October 29, 2003)

So, I contend the flag is still the same as that we have at this page and still used for the State Border Guard Service despite the rename in 2003.
Zachary Harden, 16 July 2021

Image located by Anonymous, 31 July 2021

This is the emblem of the Administration of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine and you can see other emblems and flags there of the State Border Guard Service.
[Translation from source by UFE Editor: "Coat of arms of the Administration of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine. The coat of arms of the Administration of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine is a raspberry round shield with golden perch, against which there is a heraldic sign of the Administration of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine - an emblem of the State Border Guard Service of Ukraine with the image of a key and two crossed swords upwards. The key hole has the shape of an equilateral cross with divergeable rays, and a beard has two symmetrical walls. The images of the key and swords are golden."]
Anonymous, 31 July 2021

Speculative image by Pete Loeser, 14 August 2021

I provide this speculative drawing of the State Border Guard Service Flag based on their shield posted on their website.
Pete Loeser, 14 August 2021

Image from Victor Lomantsov, (Виктор Ломанцов), 16 August 2021

Let us not fantasize! The flag seen on the photo has no the vertical key above the cross. This design (with 2 GOLDEN swords and a key) is used as symbol of the Administration since 2001 (as the emblem and detail of the Head of Administration personal standard), but it was not used on the service flag.
I repeat my opinion: it is the new flag of The State Border Service after reorganization in 2003. It looks like service flag of 2001, but now the flag has 2 crossed swords behind the cross. And have no the key, of course.
We have no official documents yet (all documents confirmed variant of 2002, without the swords). But we saw several photos with this flag near Minister of Interior. - i.e the official using of this flag in 2020-2021 is a fact.
Victor Lomantsov, (Виктор Ломанцов), 16 August 2021

Speculative image by Pete Loeser, 16 August 2021

I provide this second speculative drawing of the new State Border Guard Service Flag based on the recent pictures Victor provided.
Pete Loeser, 16 August 2021

I could not find any decrees to show the badge was redone, but I also wonder if it was just an error on the flagmakers? The first I have seen was this flag is in 2019 and also this 2017 photo. There are also badges that use the swords without keys, so that is what I am leaning towards.
I've only seen this flag at the MBC headquarters from these pictures I have found.
Zachary Harden, 16 August 2021

## 21-37. Kriegsmarine Signal Pennant? Positive ID

Claude Waldteufel, 22 July 2021

je viens de découvrir et parcouru avec beaucoup d'intérêt le site des drapeaux du monde. (FOTW Flags of the World)
J'ai un "fanion" ancien dont je cherche la provenance et la signification. Peut-être pourriez vous m'aider ?
Grand merci par avance. Très cordialement.
Claude Waldteufel, 22 July 2021

The text simply asks if we can help him identify this old "pennant". The stamped text on the sleeve of the flag "Wendefl. rot-schwarz" translates as "reversible red-black".
Rob Raeside, 22 July 2021

A German Signal flag, from before the war. Also, it's upside down.
(Drapeau de signalisation allemand, d'avant la guerre: rouge. En outre, il est à l'envers.)
Source: German Signal Flags: Red (Rot).
Peter Hans van den Muijzenberg, 22 July 2021

## 21-38. Unknown Capitol Riot Flag Some Speculation

Image from Homero Garza Jr., 28 July 2021

I was wondering if you could help me out with identifying this unknown flag that I saw when I watched a New York Times video about the Capitol Riot of 1/6... Here is a photo of it. Hope you guys can be able to ID it.
Homero Garza Jr., 28 July 2021

Is it possible that Mr. Homero Garza Jr. can share with us the link, date or any other type of information that can allow us to look for further information? I didn't see the original source nor the date spotted, so it is rather difficult to work with just what we have at the moment.
Esteban Rivera, 31 July 2021

## 21-39. Unknown Purple Flags (Palestine) Some Speculation

Image from William Garrison, 10 August 2021

Anybody recognize these Unknown Purple Flags in in protest in Palestine? (source)
The caption reads: "Palestinians protest in the West Bank city of Ramallah on May 9, 2021, in solidarity with Palestinian families facing Israeli eviction orders in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of East Jerusalem. (ABBAS MOMANI / AFP)"
The unidentified purple flags being carried during Palestinian march in Ramallah in solidarity with Palestinian families facing Israeli eviction order in the sheikh Jarrah neighborhood on May 9, 2021. Pertaining to the purple flag in the middle-left of this photo, slightly to its lower right there appears to be another purple flag but with a different slogan in white.
William Garrison, 10 August 2021

I am not sure these are flags (in the sense that they represent a coherent group of people or organization), but rather these might be banners displaying a slogan. Either way, there must be good business in producing flags and banners in the Middle East!
Rob Raeside, 10 August 2021

The context of the situation and the image is the following:
In 1947, there were about 100 Jewish houses in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in Jerusalem. East Jerusalem came under Jordanian rule following the 1948 War. The evacuated Jewish residents were resettled in Palestinian homes in West Jerusalem. The neighborhood derives its name from Hussam al-Din al-Jarrahi, an emir and the personal physician of Saladin. Due to his extensive work in medicine, Hussam received the title of jarrah (جراح‎), meaning "healer" or "surgeon" in the Arabic language. Hence he is dubbed "جراح القدس" (Jerusalem surgeon).
The Ashkenazi portion of the property south of the tomb of Hussam, which subsequently became a destination for Muslim mystics and visitors remained open space, and in 1956, 28 housing units for Palestinian refugees were constructed there. The Jordanian government agreed with the United Nations Palestinian relief agency UNRWA to house 28 Palestinian refugee families, who were required to pay rent to the Jordanian Custodian of Enemy Property. These Palestinian families had previously lived in Haifa and Jaffa, but had been displaced in 1948.
After the Six Day War (1967) and the occupation of East Jerusalem by Israel, Jewish settlers began to request permission to build and/or occupy already existing houses in that area based on legal grounds, mainly the Absentees Property Law, which established the Office of the Israeli Custodian of Absentee Property to manage the property of absentee Palestinian refugees (including refugees who later became citizens of Israel, called "present absentees") of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War (1949. During the Six-Day War (1967), along with previously Palestinian properties, Israel took control of the Jewish property held by the Jordanian Custodian for Enemy Property and put it under the control of their own Custodian of Absentee Property. Most of this property remains under the Custodian, while some (as in the Sheikh Jarrah case) has been granted to Jews contesting ownership, after claiming it in court.
Also, there have been times where formal acquisition of land and houses by the Israelis has been done through certain financial mechanisms, mainly trusts. So the intention to relocate and resettle by both peoples is what has caused tensions among them.
In recent times, more properly this year, in 2021, Israel's Supreme Court had been expected to deliver a ruling on May 10, 2021 on whether to uphold the eviction of Palestinian families from the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood that had been permitted by a lower court. The order covers 13 families (other sources mention six), 58 people including 17 children. Six families were to be evicted by 2 May (subject to Supreme Court ruling) and a further seven families by August 1.
So, on May 6, several Palestinians began protests in East Jerusalem over an anticipated decision of the Supreme Court of Israel on the eviction of six Palestinian families in Sheikh Jarrah. Under international law, the area, effectively annexed by Israel, is a part of the occupied Palestinian territories. On May 7, according to Israel's Channel 12 (official website, Palestinians began throwing stones at Israeli police forces, who then stormed the compound of the al-Aqsa Mosque, as well as Bab Nablus and Sheikh Jarrah, using tear gas, rubber bullets and stun grenades. The crisis prompted protests around the world and reactions from world leaders.
The violence coincided with Qadr Night (May , observed by Muslims, and Jerusalem Day (May 9–10), an Israeli national holiday. The confrontations occurred ahead of a planned Jerusalem Day march, "Dance of Flags", by alt-right Jewish nationalists that was later canceled. More than 600 people were injured, mostly Palestinians, drawing international condemnation. On May 9, 2021, the Israeli Supreme Court delayed the expected decision on evictions for 30 days, after an intervention from Attorney General of Israel Avichai Mandelblit, which sought to reduce tensions.
On the afternoon of May 10, Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades - the military wing of Hamas, gave Israel an ultimatum to withdraw security forces from the Temple Mount complex and Sheikh Jarrah by 6 p.m. When the ultimatum expired without a response, both Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad began launching rockets, which led Israel Forces to retaliate.
This escalation of military actions has been dubbed the "2021 Israeli-Palestinian crisis", "The Israeli-Palestinian clashes 2021", "Jerusalem confrontations 2021" or even the "Saif al-Quds Battle 2021" that lasted from May 6–21, May 2021.
References: source #1, source #2, source #3, source #4, source #5, source #6, source #7, and source #8.

#39a #39b
Images located by Esteban Rivera, 10 August 2021

Images attached:

- Image #1 (cropped image from the original image located here (source) In this image one can see two flags/(vertical) banners, purple background with white Arabic inscription.
- Image #1 (cropped image from the original image located here. (source) Notice in this image, which has been tilted (the flag on right) in order to compare it and see that it actually matches the flag on the left, both of them featuring in Arabic جراح القدس (Jerusalem surgeon), in clear reference to Hussam. Now, the full inscription in Arabic is not complete yet, but it is clear that it gives a thorough description of what it is and what it stands for.

Hence, I'd first label it as an UFE, and then as a "Israel - Miscellaneous Flags" which could be labeled "Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood protest flag".
Esteban Rivera, 10 August 2021

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