Basic Country Facts

Introduction   We are working on a write up. If you want to help, please write Editors@ArabicNews.com and include Introduction Write-up in the Email subject. Gaza Strip The Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements ("the DOP"), signed in Washington on 13 September 1993, provides for a transitional period not exceeding five years of Palestinian interim self-government in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Permanent status negotiations began on 5 May 1996.