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The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the State of Palestine is the head of the government ministry in charge of Palestine's foreign relations. It was established in 2003 as a ministry within the Palestinian National Authority.
No. | Portrait | Name (Birth–Death) |
Term of office | Party | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Nabil Shaath (born 1938) |
April 2003 | February 2005 | Fatah (PLO) | |
2 | Nasser al-Qudwa (born 1953) |
February 2005 | March 2006 | Fatah (PLO) | |
3 | Mahmoud al-Zahar (born 1945) |
20 March 2006 | 18 March 2007 | Hamas | |
4 | Ziad Abu Amr (born 1950) |
18 March 2007 | 17 June 2007 | Independent | |
5 | Salam Fayyad (born 1952) |
June 2007 | July 2007 | Third Way | |
6 | Riyad al-Maliki (born 1955) |
July 2007 | Incumbent | Independent |
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]