The first ever pride flag raised in #Gaza 🏳️‍🌈

Yoav Atzmoni who is a member of the #LGBTQ+ community wanted to send a message of hope to the people of Gaza living under #Hamas brutality.

His intention was to raise the first pride flag in Gaza as a call for peace and #freedom.… pic.twitter.com/zZPvAfwItd

— Israel in Toronto (@IsraelinToronto) November 13, 2023

Yoav Atzmoni, 31, told The Post Sunday he posed for photos holding up a rainbow flag with the words “In The Name of Love” written across it while stationed in Gaza — in defiance of the territory’s deep anti-gay laws and imposed rhetoric.

The images began circulating online over the weekend as some social media users noted how the flag was a powerful statement considering how LGBTQ people are oppressed in the strip under Hamas rule. …

The soldier told The Post he fulfilled his wishes two weeks ago — which is when the photos of him that are making the rounds online were taken in the Al-Atatra in the northern part of the Gaza Strip.

Another photo he provided Insider shows him standing in front of a tank with a flag of Israel which features rainbow colors at the top and bottom.

[I’d bet the IDF doesn’t mind this either, and may have encouraged it. What better way to remind the Left in the West what Hamas and Palestinian culture truly means for any sort of heterodoxy from radical Islam? As Adam Baldwin argues, there’s a level at which “Queers for Palestine” is not an oxymoron, but only among the most intentionally radical in the Queer movement. And those people wouldn’t dare live in such a “liberated” environment in the first place. — Ed]