The Palestinian Authority Government of 1996 was a government of the Palestinian National Authority (PA), established following the first general elections after the conclusion of the Oslo Accords, a set of agreements between the Government of Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), signed in Washington, D.C., in which year?
Palestinian Authority Government of 1996 The Palestinian Authority Government of 1996 was a government of the Palestinian National Authority (PA), established following the first general elections after the conclusion of the Oslo Accords. It was headed by Yasser Arafat, the President of the Palestinian National Authority, and remained in function until 29 April 2003. Elections were held on 20 January 1996.
Palestinian autonomy talks The Palestinian autonomy talks were an outgrowth of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty and were designed to lead to a resolution of the Palestinian question in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. According to The Framework for Peace in the Middle East, one part of the 1978 Camp David Accords, Egypt and Israel were to agree within one year on elections for a Palestinian “self-governing authority.” The idea was directly related to Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin’s idea of Palestinian autonomy.