Skip to main content
Guidance

Palestine: country policy and information notes

Guidance used by UK Visas and Immigration to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.

Updates to this page

From:
UK Visas and Immigration
Published:
9 December 2016
Last updated:
2 October 2026
Show all updates

  1. Information about the humanitarian situation in Gaza has been updated to version 5.0.

  2. Published the country bulletin: security situation in Gaza, Palestine, June 2026. This replaces the country policy and information note: security situation in Gaza, Palestine, November 2024.

  3. Updated to change 'Occupied Palestinian Territories' to 'Palestine', and updated the 'Points to note' section in both documents.

  4. Updated country policy and information notes.

  5. Updated country policy and information notes.

  6. Information about the humanitarian situation in Gaza has been removed as it no longer accurately reflects the current situation.

  7. Occupied Palestininan Territories: the humanitarian situation in Gaza version 3.0 added.

  8. Added Home Office fact-finding mission report.

  9. Occupied Palestinian Territory (Gaza): security and humanitarian situation version 2.0 added.

  10. Background information, including actors of protection, and internal relocation published.

  11. 'Operational guidance note: Occupied Palestinian Territories, March 2013' and 'Country of origin information report: Occupied Palestinian Territories, 15 May 2012' removed.

  12. First published.

Documents

Country policy and information note: humanitarian situation in Gaza, Palestine, September 2026 (accessible version)

HTML

Country policy and information note: humanitarian situation in Gaza, Palestine, September 2026

PDF, 1.34 MB, 80 pages

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email alternativeformats@homeoffice.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Country bulletin: security situation in Gaza, Palestine, June 2026 (accessible)

HTML

Country bulletin: security situation in Gaza, Palestine, June 2026

PDF, 752 KB, 25 pages

This file may not be suitable for users of assistive technology.

Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email alternativeformats@homeoffice.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Details

Country policy and information notes (previously known as country information and guidance reports) are used by UK Visas and Immigration officials to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.

The notes also give information on asylum seekers’ countries of origin.

We are aware some of these publication may have accessibility issues. We are reviewing them so that we can fix these. Read more about our accessible documents policy.

Sign up for emails or print this page

Related content