Events in the year 2017 in Palestine.
Incumbents State of Palestine (UN observer non-member State) Mahmoud Abbas (PLO), President, 8 May 2005–current Rami Hamdallah, Prime Minister, 6 June 2013–current Government of Palestine – 17th Government of Palestine Gaza Strip (Hamas administration unrecognized by the United Nations) Ismail Haniyeh (Hamas), Prime Minister, 29 March 2006–current
Events The Edward Said Public Library opened in Beit Lahia in the northern Gaza Strip.
November November 1 Israeli forces arrest journalist and prisoners' rights activist Bushra al-Tawil and sentences her to six months in administrative detention.
Deaths
6 March – Bassel al-Araj, Palestinian activist and writer.(born 1984)
See also 2017 in Israel List of violent incidents in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, 2017
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