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![[Municipality of Yatta (Palestine)]](../images/p/ps-yatta.gif) image by Tomislav Šipek, 13 July 2018
image by Tomislav Šipek, 13 July 2018
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"Yatta or Yattah (also mispelled as Youttha) (Arabic: يطّا) is a Palestinian 
city located in the Hebron Governorate in the West Bank. Yatta has been 
identified with the site of the Biblical town of Juttah. Yatta has an ancient 
history dating back to the Canaanite era where ancient Canaanites inhabited 
Palestine in earlier eras. The town is called Yutta, which means flat land. In 
the Roman era it was mentioned as "Ietaem" but the old town itself originated in 
the Ottoman era. . Yatta, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the 
Ottoman Empire in 1517. After the 1948 War and its respective 1949 Armistice 
Agreements, Yatta came under Jordanian rule. The Council of Yatta Municipality 
was established in 1967. Since the 1967 war, Yatta has been under Israeli 
occupation, along with the rest of the West Bank. However, as of September 1995, 
Yatta and its immediate region, now known as Area A, have come under the 
administration of the Palestinian Authority (PA)"
Sources: 
http://yatta-munc.org/me/?page_id=606  ,
http://yatta-munc.org/me/?page_id=506  ,
http://yatta-munc.org/me/wp-content/uploads/....1.pdf 
and 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yatta,_Hebron 
For additional information go to: Yatta (official 
website)
Esteban Rivera, 14 July 2018
The flag of Yatta is white with emblem.
Sources: 
https://maannews.net/Content.aspx?id=861291 
https://www.facebook.com/1469263876644828/photos/a.1471578993079983.1073741828.1469263876644828/2060917330812810/?type=3&theater
https://www.facebook.com/1469263876644828/photos/a.1471578993079983.1073741828.1469263876644828/2078931712344705/?type=3&theater
Tomislav Šipek, 13 July 2018
The actual flag is seen 
here (second flag from left to right) (white flag with Seal).
Also, please notice that the table flags on the left of the picture display a 
vertically oriented flag on the right, showing the color variant of the seal as 
the following images will prove.
Source: 
https://maannews.net/Content.aspx?id=861291  ) 
Now, in both these images (image 
1 and
image 2) they still show the same flag as above (white background with black 
seal and black writing). The variant seen in these two images is actually 
vertically displayed as the table flags show the seal in color (
seal1 
and
seal2 ).
Sources:
https://www.facebook.com/1469263876644828/photos/a.1471578993079983.1073741828.1469263876644828/2078931712344705/?type=3&theater 
;
https://www.facebook.com/1469263876644828/photos/a.1471578993079983.1073741828.1469263876644828/2060917330812810/?type=3&theater
The seal displays the "ٱلْـمَـسْـجِـد الْاَقْـصَى" (English: Al-Aqsa Mosque) in 
the middle, in black, with a surrounding half cogwheel and above, it is written 
in Arabic "بلدية يطا" (English: Municipality of Yatta). Below the Mosque, is the 
name in English first, in capital black letters, "YATTA MUNICIPALITY" and below 
in Arabic, بلدية يطا.
The flag with the seal in black also has a fimbriation in black as seen
here (first flag from left to right):
Source: 
http://yatta-munc.org/me/?p=749  ). 
Also, the flag displays the Municipality's name in Arabic below as well, as seen 
in
this picture which displays the flag (first flag from left to right):
Source:
https://www.facebook.com/1469263876644828/photos/a.1471578993079983.1073741828.1469263876644828/2088433681394508/?type=3&theater
Esteban Rivera, 14 July 2018
![[Municipality of Yatta (Palestine)]](../images/p/ps-yatta_t.gif)
image by Tomislav Šipek, 13 July 2018
Table flag of Yatta.
Tomislav Šipek, 13 July 2018