Government institutions in Palestine, including legislatures, judicial bodies, and executive agencies.
Interim governing body established under the Oslo Accords to administer Palestinian territory in the West Bank and, until 2007, Gaza. The Palestinian Authority is dominated by Fatah and led by President Mahmoud Abbas. Its legitimacy has declined sharply — Abbas's presidential term expired in 2009 and no elections have been held, while the PA's security cooperation with Israel has made it deeply unpopular in Palestinian public opinion. Post-war Gaza reconstruction scenarios debated by international actors frequently involve a reformed Palestinian Authority.
The legislature created under the Oslo framework to represent Palestinians in the occupied territories. The PLC has been effectively inactive since the Fatah-Hamas split and the collapse of shared governance after 2007, leaving Palestinian politics without a functioning elected legislature and further concentrating power in presidential decrees, factional networks, and security institutions.
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