Palestinian government

This article is about the Government of the Palestinian territories. For the Government of the State of Palestine, see Executive Committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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The Palestinian Government is the institution that governs the Palestinian territories. The ruling power is split into two separate and competitive administrations. The first is the Palestinian unity government of 2014, which rules the West Bank Area A and in theory also partially Area B, and is generally referred to as the Palestinian Authority (PA). The other is the Hamas government of 2012, which is de facto ruling the Gaza Strip. Although the 2014 unity government formally is a government representing both Fatah and Hamas, the two parties are hostile to each other as reconciliation attempts have failed so far.

The overarching government of the State of Palestine is the PLO Executive Committee, which is supposed to represent all Palestinians in the occupied Palestinian territories as well as the Palestinians abroad. Hamas, which is the dominant Palestinian party alongside Fatah, however, is not represented in the PLO. Both the Palestinian Authority and the PLO Executive are established under the responsibility of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The PLO Executive has been largely dysfunctional for many years due to continued absence of Palestinian National Council elections.

Governments

PNA governments until June 2007

Palestinian National Authority is an interim administrative body established by the PLO pursuant to the Oslo Accords of 1993, which exercised limited control of populated areas of the West Bank. Listed below are the executive organs of the PNA cabinets:

After the split of Fatah and Hamas

Since June 2007, the Fatah government has exercised authority in Ramallah, West Bank, and has been recognized as the official government of the Palestinian National Authority, while the Hamas administration took control in the Gaza Strip, and exercised control of that territory after it ousted Fatah PNA representatives in 2007.

A Palestinian unity government of 2014 was sworn in the aftermath of a Hamas-Fatah Gaza accord on reconciliation.

History

The following organizations have claimed or executed authority over the people in the past:

See also

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