Embassy of the State of Palestine

On Wednesday 5 December, Ambassador Abdulhadi attended the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade’s (DFAT) end of year evening reception at the RG Casey Building in Barton.

On Thursday, 29 November 2018, the United Nations Information Centre for Australia, New Zealand and the South Pacific, in partnership with the General Delegation of Palestine to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific, the Federal Parliamentary Friends of Palestine and the Council of Arab Ambassadors, hosted a reception to observe...

November 15, 2018 “The Palestinian National Council issued the Palestinian Declaration of Independence on November 15, 1988, declaring an independent Palestinian state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. With this, the Palestinian leadership proclaimed its support for the two-state solution, international law and United Nations resolutions,...

On Thursday 18 October, the General Delegation of Palestine to Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific (GDOP), in partnership with the Palestinian Film Festival Australia, organised the evening premiere of the film Wajib – The Wedding Invitation at Event Cinemas in Manuka, officially opening the Canberra leg of the festival.

On Thursday 20 September, Ambassador Abdulhadi attended the opening of the National Museum of Australia’s (NMA) latest exhibition, Rome: City and Empire, in Canberra. The reception was attended by around 300 people, including members of the international diplomatic corps, and featured Dr Thorsten Opper, Senior Curator at the British Museum...

On Friday 21 September, Ambassador Abdulhadi and First Secretary Noura Saleh attended the gathering in Canberra for the UN International Day of Peace, hosted by the United Nations Information Centre (UNIC) and the Rotary Club of Canberra Burley Griffin.

Writer-director Annemarie Jacir’s multi-award winning comic drama explores the lives of Palestinians living in Israel, and stars real-life father and son Mohammad and Saleh Bakri.

On Wednesday 15 August, Chargé d’Affaires and Counsellor Ms Suheir Gedeon delivered a letter of appreciation on behalf of Ambassador Abdulhadi to the Ambassador of the Republic of Colombia in Australia, H.E. Mr Jaime Bueno-Miranda, expressing the Palestinian government’s sincere gratitude to the Colombian government for its recent decision to...

On the evening of Wednesday 8 August, a delegation from the Association for the Development of Arabic Poetry and Heritage headed by Dr Bahia (Betty) Abou-Hamad visited the Palestinian Delegation so that their guest of honour, Professor Rifaat Ebied, Foundation Professor of Semitic Studies at the University of Sydney, could...

On 7 June, the Palestinian Delegation participated in the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) first Iftar dinner at the Canberra Islamic Centre in Monash. It was an opportunity for the diplomatic missions that comprise the OIC to unite Canberra’s Muslim community and members of other faiths in a spirit of...