PA National Security Forces Facebook post image of Arafat together with map of “Palestine” erasing Israel

Image posted on the Facebook page of the PA National Security Forces

The image shows a picture of Yasser Arafat surrounded by olive branches with the PA National Security Forces logo to his right, and to his left a dove and the PA map of “Palestine" that presents all of Israel as "Palestine" together with the PA areas in the colors of the Palestinian flag.

Text on image:
"The anniversary of the declaration of the independence of the State of Palestine
15/11/1988"

Palestinian declaration of independence - On Nov. 15, 1988, before the Palestine National Council (PNC), the Palestinian parliament in exile in Algeria, Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Yasser Arafat declared the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital. Although the borders were not specified in the declaration, it recognized the UN partition plan of 1947, which called for the creation of a Jewish state and an Arab state in the former British Mandate for Palestine.