Embassy of the State of Palestine

Israel has announced plans to build almost 600 new settlement homes in occupied East Jerusalem, just two days after Donald Trump’s inauguration as US president, with officials stating the “rules of the game have changed”.

Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki: "We'll have a vigorous and immediate follow up for the implementation of the Paris Conference outputs." Dr al-Maliki said that "The Paris Peace Conference on the Middle East, which concluded its work Sunday, left us with a document containing three components, each of which needs a...

We extend our gratitude and appreciation to the French government for its initiative to organize an international peace conference of foreign ministers and diplomats in Paris on January 15, and for putting the Palestinian issue back on the global agenda; we also acknowledge the Participants for their commitment to international law and...

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has distanced the Australian government from the communique made at the Paris Middle East Peace Conference, agreed by ministers and diplomats of 70 nations, including Australia, concerning the pathways to peace between Israel and Palestine.

The Embassy of the State of Palestine in Canberra welcomes the concluding statement of the Paris Middle East Peace Conference. The statement reaffirmed the two-state solution as the only way to achieve a sustainable peace, emphasised the importance for the parties to restate their commitment to this solution, and reiterated that...

We discussed the importance of the implementation of our comprehensive bilateral agreement. This treaty goes beyond the formal recognition of the State of Palestine on the 1967 borders: It ratifies our commitment to the freedom of worship and our support for the work of the churches in Palestine, the Holy Land.

In his recent article published in The Spectator, former Prime Minister Tony Abbott has suggested that Australia should cut all Australian aid to the Palestinian people, based on the wholly unfounded claim that it is being used by the Palestinian Authority to “pay pensions to terrorists and their families”.

Foreign Minister Julie Bishop has quickly dismissed a pair of contentious suggestions on Middle East relations from Tony Abbott, who called for the Australian embassy in Israel to be relocated to Jerusalem and for a cut to development aid for the Palestinian Authority because of their financial support for "terrorists...