Under the DOP, Israel agreed to recognize the West Bank and the Gaza Strip as a " Single Territorial Unit " as well as to transfer certain powers and responsibilities to the Palestinian Authority, which includes the Palestinian Legislative Council elected in January 1996, as part of the interim self-governing arrangements in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.

The Palestinian Arab decision to boycott the 1923 elections for a Legislative Council was made at the fifth Palestinian Congress, at which most of the Arab political organisations were represented.

March: The Palestinian Legislative Council established a national unity government, with 83 representatives voting in favor and three against.

In 1996, he was elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council, following which he began his active advocacy of the establishment of an independent Palestinian state.

Category: Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council

It won 4. 2 % of the popular vote and took three of the 132 seats in the Palestinian Legislative Council.

The Constituency of Khan Yunis had five members on the Palestinian Legislative Council.

When in March 2002 Maryam Mohammad Yousif Farhat of Hamas, popularized as " Umm Nidal " ( and subsequently elected to the Palestinian Legislative Council ), learned that her 17-year-old son had been killed on a suicide mission in which he killed five teenagers, she celebrated by proclaiming " Allahu Akbar!

The appointment of Fayyad to replace Haniyeh has been challenged as illegal, because under the Palestinian Basic Law, the president may dismiss a sitting prime minister, but may not appoint a replacement without the approval of the Palestinian Legislative Council.

Pointing to the Palestinian constitution, Hamas disputes the validity of this move, and considers Abbas ' term to have ended, in which case Abdel Aziz Duwaik, Speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council has become acting president.

Category: Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council

It was also used in Bolivia in 1993, in Poland in 2001, and in the elections to the Palestinian Legislative Council in 2006.

He has previously served as speaker of the Palestinian Legislative Council and held a variety of significant positions within the Palestine Liberation Organization ( PLO ) from the 1970s on.

Category: Speakers of the Palestinian Legislative Council

, the PNC is chaired by Salim Zanoun and has 669 members ; 88 are from the Palestinian Legislative Council ( PLC ), 98 represent the Palestinian population living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and 483 represent the Palestinian diaspora.

In the January 25, 2006 Palestinian Legislative Elections, 6, 300 East Jerusalem Arabs were registered and permitted to vote locally.

In addition, she is or has been Vice-President of the Animal Welfare Intergroup, a member of Intergroups on Peace Issues and Consumer Affairs, a member of the Parliament's Delegation to ACP ( African Caribbean, and Pacific ) Countries, and a member of the Delegation for Relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council.

While the Palestinian Authority makes no reservations within the Palestinian Legislative Council ( there were reserved seats for Christians and Samaritans in the electoral law for the Palestinian general election, 1996 ), certain positions in local government are guaranteed to certain minority groups, in order to retain particular traditional cultural influence and diversity.

This document, which was accepted by the Palestinian National Council ( PNC ) after lobbying by Fatah and DFLP, cautiously introduced the concept of a two-state solution in the PLO, and caused a split in the organization leading to the formation of the Rejectionist Front, where radical organizations such as the PFLP, PFLP-GC, Palestine Liberation Front and others gathered with the backing of Syria, Libya and Iraq to oppose Arafat and the mainstream PLO stance.

The agreement also established an elected 88-member Palestinian National Council, which held its inaugural session in Gaza in March 1996.

* 1988 – Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.

# Providing substantive and administrative support to human rights fact-finding and investigatory mechanisms, such as special rapporteurs, representatives and experts and working groups mandated by the Commission on Human Rights and / or the Economic and Social Council to deal with specific country situations or phenomena of human rights violations worldwide, as well as the General Assembly's Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories ;

" The final article providing that it can only be amended by a vote of a two-thirds majority of the Palestinian National Council ( PNC ) at a special session convened for that purpose was left unchanged.

Following Yasser Arafat's commitment to " submit to the Palestinian National Council for formal approval " the changes to the Charter confirming that " those articles of the Palestinian Covenant which deny Israel's right to exist, and the provisions of the Covenant which are inconsistent with the commitments of this letter are now inoperative and no longer valid " in the September 9, 1993 letters of mutual recognition, the PNC met in Gaza and voted on 24 April 1996.

An earlier version of the above translation is still available on the website of Palestinian American Council.

: The Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Central Council will reaffirm the letter of 22 January 1998 from PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat to President Clinton concerning the nullification of the Palestinian National Charter provisions that are inconsistent with the letters exchanged between the PLO and the Government of Israel on 9 – 10 September 1993.

PLO Chairman Arafat, the Speaker of the Palestine National Council, and the Speaker of the Palestinian Council will invite the members of the PNC, as well as the members of the Central Council, the Council, and the Palestinian Heads of Ministries to a meeting to be addressed by President Clinton to reaffirm their support for the peace process and the aforementioned decisions of the Executive Committee and the Central Council.

In 1993, PLO recognized Israel's right to exist in peace, accepted UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, and rejected " violence and terrorism "; in response, Israel officially recognized the PLO as the representative of the Palestinian people.

The PLO has a nominal legislative body, the Palestinian National Council ( PNC ), but most actual political power and decisions are controlled by the PLO Executive Committee, made up of 18 people elected by the PNC.

Other institutions are the Chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Palestinian Central Council ( PCC ) which consists of 124 members from the PLO Executive Committee, PNC, PLC and other Palestinian organizations.

In a meeting with 8 Jewish and 8 Protestant Dutch leaders in Israel in May 2011, a statement of cooperation was issued, indicating, for the most part, that the Protestant Church recognizes the issues involved with the Palestinian Christians and that this is sometimes at odds with support for the State of Israel, but standing up for the rights of the Palestinians does not detract from the emphasis on the safety of the State of Israel and vice versa.

The term is also sometimes used to refer to modern events or states in the region immediately bordering the eastern Mediterranean Sea: Israel, Palestinian territories, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria.

During the 1920 Jerusalem riots, the 1921 Palestine riots and the 1929 Palestine riots, Palestinian Arabs manifested hostility against Zionist immigration and Jewish communities, which provoked the reaction of Jewish militias, sometimes supported by British troops.

The Levant includes most of modern Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Palestinian territories, Cyprus, Turkey's Hatay Province and sometimes Iraq or the Sinai Peninsula, and corresponds roughly to the historic area of Greater Syria.

These are large unmanned mounds of earth and concrete on roads throughout the West Bank, and sometimes placed at the entrances of Palestinian villages by the IDF, thereby isolating those villages ' inhabitants by preventing traffic in or out.

At times, their activity in Judea, Samaria and the Gaza Strip is under the auspices of Palestinian terrorist organizations, and that sometimes, " ISM members, who seek entry into Israel, often do so under false pretenses, via cover stories-entry for matrimonial, tourist, religious and other purposes-which they coordinate prior to arriving in Israel.

* Nationalist terrorism may overlap with religiously-motivated terrorism, so Palestinian nationalist militant / terrorist groups are also sometimes Islamic ( Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad ), and Zionist groups are also sometimes Jewish ( Kach and Kahane Chai, Gush Emunim Underground ).

The party spread its messages by means of graffiti in East Beirut, including slogans against Syria, the " Palestinian Resistance ", and Pan-Arabism, sometimes with violent anti-Palestinian tones, as in the slogan على كل لبناني ان يقتل فلسطينيا ً (" It is a duty for each Lebanese to kill a Palestinian ").

The term " Palestinian " has sometimes been used to refer to a person whose ancestors are originally from the territory corresponding to British Mandate Palestine ( what is now Israel, West Bank & Gaza ).

In addition, the term is sometimes used for summer camps that bring together youth from different groups in conflict ( e. g., Palestinian and Israeli youth ) to work towards transformation and improvement of mutual relations.

Conditions at Hawara were relaxed in 2009, and since then, Palestinian vehicles have sometimes faced only random inspections.

* al-Jiyya, a Palestinian village which is sometimes transliterated as Algie

Maqluba, Palestinian cuisine, is an upside-down rice and eggplant casserole, sometimes made with fried cauliflower instead of eggplant, and usually includes meat, often braised lamb.

Nadine Salameh (, born August 9, 1980 in Beirut, Lebanon ), sometimes credited as Nadeen Salameh, is a Palestinian actress well known in Syria where she has lived and worked for most of her life.

In October 2000 a Palestinian mob lynched two non-combatant Israel Defense Forces reservists, Vadim Nurzhitz ( sometimes spelled as Norzhich ) and Yossi Avrahami ( or Yosef Avrahami ), who had accidentally entered the Palestinian Authority-controlled city of Ramallah in the West Bank.

This hair color is less common further south and southeast, but can occur somewhat regularly in Southern Europe ( more so in Spain, Portugal and Italy ) and North Africa, Lebanon, west Syria, Palestinian territories, Jordan, Northern Iran, Central Iran, and sometimes Central Asia.