Palestinian Government Adopts New System Regulating Protocol Gifts To Strengthen Integrity

The Palestinian government adopted a new system to regulate symbolic and protocol gifts, based on a recommendation from the Commission for the Fight Against Corruption and published in the Official Gazette on May 25, 2026.

“RAMALLAH, June 1, 2026 (WAFA) – The Palestinian government has adopted a new regulation governing symbolic and protocol gifts, based on a recommendation from the Anti-Corruption Commission”

WAFA Agency

The system, issued pursuant to the Anti-Corruption Law and related legislation, aims to strengthen integrity, transparency, and accountability by setting a clear framework for when gifts may be accepted and what exceptions are permissible.

WAFA Agency

It confirms the principle of prohibiting the solicitation or acceptance of gifts related to public office, while allowing symbolic and protocol gifts under specific controls and procedures.

The system defines protocol gifts as those given in the context of official and diplomatic relations to express mutual respect and strengthen formal relations, and it introduces mechanisms for reporting protocol gifts and studying them through expert committees.

The new system introduces more detailed mechanisms for reporting protocol gifts and studying them through expert committees, with the committees issuing objective and well-reasoned decisions on how to dispose of them.

It provides procedures for handling gifts received by senior officials through committees that study these cases and issue the necessary recommendations to competent authorities.

Al-Najah Al-Ikhbari

It expands options for disposing of protocol gifts in the public interest, including allocating them to the government entity for use, referring them to competent authorities if they have cultural, historical, or heritage value, or selling them under approved legal procedures and depositing the proceeds with competent authorities.

To emphasize transparency, it requires relevant bodies to establish a special registry for protocol gifts, document their data and the decisions taken, and publish this registry on official websites to strengthen disclosure and institutional oversight.

The system replaces the Gifts System No. 10 of 2019 and broadens the scope of entities and people subject to its provisions, while providing clearer definitions of symbolic and protocol gifts.

“Home Policy Local The Palestinian Government Adopts a New System to Regulate Protocol Gifts and Strengthen Integrity in the Public Sector The new system imposes more detailed controls on the acceptance and disclosure of gifts and strengthens oversight and transparency mechanisms in public institutions”

Shabakat Masdar al-Akhbariyya

It enhances the awareness-raising and supervisory role of the Anti-Corruption Commission in monitoring implementation and collecting data and statistics related to the regulation.

WAFA reported that the regulation reaffirms the prohibition on soliciting or accepting gifts linked to public office while permitting symbolic and protocol gifts under specific conditions and procedures.

In parallel, the Palestinian government’s broader policy posture was reflected in Ambassador Riyad Mansour’s warning to the UN that Israeli measures are aimed at entrenching annexation and turning it into a de facto irreversible fact on the ground, as he sent three identical letters to UN leadership.