Six hundred people unfurled the biggest Philippine flag inside the Baguio Athletic Bowl. The 180 meters x 92 meters Philippine flag was displayed almost as the same time as the world's biggest flag, the Israeli flag, was also unfurled at Gaza strip in Israel. Grace Galindez Gupana, the maker of the two flags, decided to attend the Israeli unfurling but in her message to the almost 5,000 government employees and students in the athletic Bowl, she said that the simultaneous unfurling is symbolic because the Gaza Strip is beset with conflicts and the Philippines is out to help bring in the peace. The Philippine flag weighed 3.8 tons and cost almost P30 million. The Israeli flag, first unfurled in 2006 in Masada, Israel, measured 660 meters by 100 meters and weighed 5.2 tons.
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