The Palestinian Authority,officially known as the Palestinian National Authority or the State of Palestine,is the Fatah-controlled government body that exercises partial civil control over the Palestinian enclaves in the Israeli-occupied West Bank as a consequence of the 1993–1995 Oslo Accords. The Palestinian Authority controlled the Gaza Strip prior to the Palestinian elections of 2006 and the subsequent Gaza conflict between the Fatah and Hamas parties,when it lost control to Hamas;the PA continues to claim the Gaza Strip,although Hamas exercises de facto control. Since January 2013,following United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19,the Palestinian Authority has used the name "State of Palestine" on official documents,without prejudice to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) role as "representative of the Palestinian people".
The Palestine Liberation Organization is a Palestinian nationalist coalition that is internationally recognized as the official representative of the Palestinian people in both the Palestinian territories and the diaspora. It is currently represented by the Palestinian Authority based in the West Bank city of Al-Bireh.
Mahmoud Abbas,also known by the kunya Abu Mazen,is a Palestinian politician who is the president of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). He has been the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) since 2004,PNA president since January 2005,and State of Palestine president since May 2005. Abbas is also a member of the Fatah party and was elected chairman in 2009.
Palestine,officially the State of Palestine,is a country in the southern Levant region of West Asia recognized by 146 out of 193 UN member states. It encompasses the Israeli-occupied West Bank,including East Jerusalem,and the Gaza Strip,collectively known as the occupied Palestinian territories,within the broader geographic and historical Palestine region. Palestine shares most of its borders with Israel,and it borders Jordan to the east and Egypt to the southwest. It has a total land area of 6,020 square kilometres (2,320 sq mi) while its population exceeds five million people. Its proclaimed capital is Jerusalem,while Ramallah serves as its administrative center. Gaza City was its largest city prior to evacuations in 2023.
Mahmoud al-Zahar is a Palestinian politician. He is a co-founder of Hamas and a member of the Hamas leadership in the Gaza Strip. Al-Zahar served as foreign minister in the Hamas-dominated Palestinian Authority Government of March 2006 that was sworn in on 20 March 2006.
The government of Palestine is the government of the Palestinian Authority or State of Palestine. The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization (EC) is the highest executive body of the Palestine Liberation Organization and acts as the government. Since June 2007,there have been two separate administrations in Palestine,one in the West Bank and the other in the Gaza Strip. The government on the West Bank was generally recognised as the Palestinian Authority Government. On the other hand,the government in the Gaza Strip claimed to be the legitimate government of the Palestinian Authority. Until June 2014,when the Palestinian Unity Government was formed,the government in the West Bank was the Fatah-dominated Palestinian government of 2013. In the Gaza Strip,the government was the Hamas government of 2012. Following two Fatah–Hamas Agreements in 2014,on 25 September 2014 Hamas agreed to let the PA Government resume control over the Gaza Strip and its border crossings with Egypt and Israel,but that agreement had broken down by June 2015,after President Abbas said the PA government was unable to operate in the Gaza Strip.
Hani al Hassan,also known as Abu Tariq and Abu-l-Hasan,was a leader of the Fatah organization in Germany and member of the Palestinian Authority Cabinet and the Palestinian National Council.
The state of human rights in the West Bank and Gaza Strip is determined by Palestinian as well as Israeli policies,which affect Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories both directly and indirectly,through their influence over the Palestinian Authority (PA). Based on The Economist Democracy Index this state is classified as an authoritarian regime.
The next legislative elections in Palestine have been repeatedly postponed or cancelled. Most recently it was scheduled for 22 May 2021 according to a decree by President Mahmoud Abbas on 15 January 2021,but was indefinitely postponed on 29 April 2021.
Nahid Munir al-Rayyis was a Palestinian politician,philanthropist,author and poet. He had formerly served as the Justice Minister of the Palestinian National Authority.
China–Palestine relations,also referred to as Sino–Palestinian relations,encompass the long bilateral relationship between China and Palestine dating back from the early years of the Cold War.
The president of the State of Palestine is the head of state of Palestine. Yasser Arafat became the first titular president of the State of Palestine in 1989,one year after the Palestinian Declaration of Independence. The title was originally titular,in parallel with the de facto title president of the Palestinian National Authority. Both functions were held by Arafat from 1994 and continued until his death in November 2004,and were continued by his successor Mahmoud Abbas. In January 2005,the Palestinian Central Council (PCC) asked Abbas to perform the duties of the president of the State of Palestine. In November 2008,the PCC approved the continuation of Abbas's function as president of the State of Palestine. Since 2013,the title president of the State of Palestine became the sole title of the Palestinian president.
Events in the year 2011 in the Palestinian territories.
The prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority was the position of the official head of government of the Palestinian Authority government,which operated between 2003 and January 2013,when it was officially transformed into the State of Palestine. Some still refer to the position of the prime minister of the Gaza Strip as the prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority.
Rami Hamdallah is a Palestinian politician and academic. He served as Prime Minister of the State of Palestine from 2013 to 2019 and was previously the president of An-Najah National University in Nablus from 1998 to 2013.
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine is a secular Palestinian Marxist–Leninist and Maoist organization. It is also frequently referred to as the Democratic Front,or al-Jabha al-Dīmūqrāṭiyya. It is a member organization of the Palestine Liberation Organization,the Alliance of Palestinian Forces and the Democratic Alliance List.
Ismail Haniyeh was a Palestinian politician who served as chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from May 2017 until his assassination in July 2024. He also served as prime minister of the Palestinian National Authority from March 2006 until June 2014 and Hamas leader in the Gaza Strip from June 2007 until February 2017,where he was succeeded by Yahya Sinwar.
Mohammad Ibrahim Shtayyeh is a Palestinian politician,academic,and economist who served as Prime Minister of the State of Palestine and the Palestinian National Authority from 2019 to 2024. On 26 February 2024,he and his government announced their resignation,remaining in office in a demissionary capacity until a new government was formed on 31 March 2024.
Khaled Mashal is a Palestinian politician who served as chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau from 1996 until May 2017,when he was succeeded by Ismail Haniyeh. He has also covered duties as the acting leader of Hamas twice,from July 2024 until August 2024 and from October 2024 to the present day,after both leaders were assassinated by Israel. He was regarded as one of the most prominent leaders of Hamas since the death of Ahmed Yassin,alongside Ismail Haniyeh and Yahya Sinwar.
The Palestinian Unity Government of June 2014 was a national unity government of the Palestinian National Authority under Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas formed on 2 June 2014 following the Fatah-Hamas Reconciliation Agreement that had been signed on 23 April 2014. The ministers were nominally independent,but overwhelmingly seen as loyal to President Abbas and his Fatah movement or to smaller leftist factions,none of whom were believed to have close ties to Hamas. However,the Unity Government was not approved by the Legislative Council,leading to its legitimacy being questioned. The Unity Government dissolved on 17 June 2015 after President Abbas said it was unable to operate in the Gaza Strip.
