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.
The Palestinian NGOs Network is a non-profit, non-governmental organization with a mandate to protect the environment of Palestine by acting as a coordinating body for Palestinian environmental organizations located in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. PNGON was initiated after the 2000 al-Aqsa Intifada due to heightened demands for Palestinian environmental organizations to defend the Palestinian environment.
Al-Quds Open University is an independent, distance education public university in Palestine. It was created by a decree issued by the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1991.
The University of Palestine is a Palestinian private institution of higher education located in Al-Zahra'. The university was established in 2005. The University of Palestine offers an open access repository for scholarly output by research centers, faculty staff and students, as well as a published Arabic Lightweight OpenCourseWare.
The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the State of Palestine:
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.
Al-Quds University is a public university in the Jerusalem Governorate, Palestine. The main campus is located in Abu Dis town, near Jerusalem, with three more such campus in Jerusalem and other campuses in Ramallah and Hebron. It was established in 1984, by merger of more local institutions in Jerusalem.
Al-Makassed Islamic Charitable Society Hospital is a Muslim Community founded teaching hospital and charitable hospital of the Palestinian Arab’s charitable founded by Makassed Islamic Charitable Society, There is one of district general hospital from part of six hospitals in the East Jerusalem Hospitals Network. It has 250 beds and is situated on Mount of Olives in East Jerusalem. It serves as a tertiary referral hospital mainly for the Arab population of the Palestinian territories, namely the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, but also provides health care for the Israeli population when they meet obstacles using other facilities. It is a teaching hospital of Al-Quds University Faculty of Medicine.
Orders, decorations and medals of the State of Palestine are awarded according to a system established and implemented during the period 2009–2018 within the frame of the institutional and state-building process.
The Representative Office of the Republic of Malta in Ramallah, Palestine opened in June 2009 and is the embodiment of the traditional ties of friendship between Malta and Palestine. Apart from taking care of the enhancement of Malta - Palestine Relations in the political and economic spheres. The Office also encourages support and cooperation between the Maltese and Palestinian people. The aim of the Representative Office of Malta in Palestine is also to monitor the constantly changing political situation and developments regarding the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process. The Goal of the Peace Process is to achieve an independent, democratic and viable State of Palestine living side by side by the State of Israel.
Sanaa al-Sarghali is a Palestinian legal and political researcher. She is the first woman from the State of Palestine to hold a PhD in Constitutional Law. She is an assistant professor at An-Najah National University and director of the Center for Constitutional Studies, which she co-founded in 2019. In 2019, she was appointed as the ninth member of the Palestinian Constitution Drafting Committee by the Palestinian National Council (PNC), the legislative arm of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Then in 2020, she was appointed as the UNESCO Chair on Human Rights, Democracy and Peace.
Al-Quds Committee, also known by its affiliated arm name adopted in 1995, Bayt Mal Al Quds Agency, is an intergovernmental organization and one of the four standing committees of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation established in July 1975. It is focused on cultural, political, social, religious and human rights issues in Jerusalem caused by the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Its principles are predominantly focused on the protection of Al-Aqsa, and cultural heritage of the city in addition to serving as an advocacy agency specialized in humanitarian and social works, concerning health, education housing children's as well as women's rights.
Tayseer Mahmoud al-Jabari was a Palestinian militant and senior commander of the al-Quds Brigades, the military wing of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement. He succeeded Baha Abu al-Ata as the brigades' commander in the northern Gaza Strip, holding that position from the former's assassination in 2019 until his own assassination in 2022, which sparked the 2022 Gaza–Israel clashes.
The Palestinian Mujahideen Movement is a Palestinian Islamic insurgent group that split from the Fatah Movement alongside its military wing, the Mujahideen Brigades, which originated from the Martyr Jamal Al-Amari Brigade of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades. The movement was founded in 2001 and led by founder Omar Abu Sharia, at the beginning of the Al-Aqsa Intifada.
Mujahideen Brigades are the armed wing of the Palestinian Mujahideen Movement. The brigades operate in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank in Palestine.
Maged Awni Muhammad Abu Ramadan is a Palestinian ophthalmologist who has served as the Minister of Health of the State of Palestine since March 2024. He was the mayor of Gaza City between 2005 and 2008.
