The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Palestine is the head of the government ministry in charge of Palestine's foreign relations.

List of ministers

No. Portrait Name
(Birth–Death)		 Term of office Party
1 Nabil Shaath
(born 1938)		April 2003February 2005Fatah
(PLO)
2 Nasser al-Qudwa
(born 1953)		February 2005March 2006Fatah
(PLO)
3 Mahmoud al-Zahar
(born 1945)		20 March 200618 March 2007Hamas
4 Ziad Abu Amr
(born 1950)		18 March 200717 June 2007Independent
5 Salam Fayyad
(born 1952)		June 2007July 2007Third Way
6 Riyad al-Maliki
(born 1955)		July 2007IncumbentIndependent

Warfare involvement

In June 2006, Israel attacked the Hamas' foreign ministry in Gaza, in response to the kidnapping of Gilad Shalit.[1] The third and fourth floors of the building were destroyed, and the incident ended without fatalities.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Israel strikes Palestinian Authority Foreign Ministry in Gaza". CNN. 2006. Archived from the original on 2007-11-14. Retrieved 2007-11-10.
  2. ↑ "Israeli Airstrike Collapses Palestinian Foreign Ministry Building in Gaza City". Fox News. 2006. Retrieved 2007-11-10.


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