1999 in Palestine

Events in the year 1999 in Palestine.

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Incumbents

• President of Palestine – Yasser Arafat (Fatah)
• President of the Palestinian National Authority – Yasser Arafat (Fatah)
• Government of Palestine – 3rd Government of Palestine

Events

• 29 April – The Palestinian Central Council decided to put off declaring independence until after the Israeli elections, triggering riots in the territories.^[1]
• 4 May – The five-year interim period, which was agreed to in the 1993 Oslo I Accord and began with the signing of the Gaza–Jericho Agreement on 4 May 1994, ends without reaching a comprehensive peace agreement.
• 3 June – 3,000 Palestinians participated in a "Day of Rage"/"Day of Wrath" in protest of the expansion of Israeli settlements in the West Bank at the call of the Palestinian Authority.^[2][3] Sociologist Baruch Kimmerling notes the result of the call was ultimately "minimal."^[3]
• 17 June – The Palestinian Authority joined the Parliamentary Union of the OIC Member States upon its inception in Iran.
• 4 September – Palestinian President Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak signed the Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum, an interim peace agreement.^[4]
• 10 September – The Israeli government pre-emptively handed civilian control of 7% of the West Bank to the Palestinian Authority, the first transfer of legal authority in 1999, in preparation for peace talks later that week.^[5]
• 13 September–3 October – Bilateral negotiations over Palestine's final status are conducted but no deal was signed due to disputes over Jerusalem, Palestinian refugees, and travel rights between Gaza and the West Bank.^[6]
• General trends
  • Unemployment in the West Bank was estimated at 9.6%.^[7]
  • Unemployment in Gaza was estimated at 17%.^[7]

Deaths

• 10 September – Mohammed Shreiteh, father of eight who allegedly sustained terminal injuries stemming from police beating him a day earlier while he was in custody, died in Hebron.^[8]
• 3 December – Mahmoud Mohammed al-Bajjali, father of three who died in prison after serving five years in prison without trial, died in Ramallah.^[8]

See also

• 1999 in Israel