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Also Known As PA • al-Sulṭah al-Waṭanīyah al-Filasṭīnīyah • Palestinian National Authority
Date 1994 - present
Related People Yasser Arafat • Mahmoud Abbas • Ismail Haniyeh • Marwan Barghouti • Salam Fayyad

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Oslo Accords: Declaration of Principles on Palestinian Self-Rule
Israeli and Palestinian settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip (1995)
Yasser Arafat, Shimon Peres, Yitzhak Rabin: Nobel Prize
Wye River Memorandum
Mahmoud Abbas
Discover a historical milestone in the Israeli-Palestinian relationship with the signing of the Declaration of Principles, 1993
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