French mayor raises Palestinian flag on city hall

Aly Diouara, the newly elected mayor of La Courneuve, a suburb of Paris, raised the Palestinian flag on the city hall building. The symbolic act was performed while Diouara wore his official mayoral sash, shortly after his election. The gesture is a public display of solidarity with the Palestinian cause by a local French official. It follows similar actions by other municipal leaders in France amid ongoing conflict in the Middle East.