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Palestine–Qatar relations

bilateral relations

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ105749118 ↗
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Palestine–Qatar relations refer to foreign relations between Qatar and Palestine. Palestine has an embassy in Doha, Qatar. Munir Abdullah Ghannam is the ambassador of Palestine to Qatar. Mohamed Al-Emadi is the ambassador of Qatar to Palestine.

History

The relations of Qatar and Palestine Liberation Organization declined during the First Gulf War in the early 1990s due to the PLO supporting Iraq.

In 2006, after the election of Hamas in Gaza both Turkey and Qatar claimed Hamas to be a legitimate government. This drew both countries closer on the Palestine issue.

Qatar severed diplomatic ties with Israel in 2009 due to Operation Cast Lead. It had established ties in 1996. In 2010, Qatar twice offered to restore trade relations with Israel and allow the reinstatement of the Israeli mission in Doha, on the condition that Israel allow Qatar to send building materials and money to Gaza to help rehabilitate infrastructure, and that Israel make a public statement expressing appreciation for Qatar's role and acknowledging its standing in the Middle East.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Palestine–Qatar relations” as bilateral relations. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2006, 2009, 1996, 2010—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Palestine, Qatar and relations can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as bilateral relations. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Palestine–Qatar relations” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.