Country Code: +970 or +972
International Call Prefix: 00
Trunk Prefix: 0

For the Palestinian territories the Country Code +970 is reserved.

This code is mainly used when calling from Arab countries to places under the jurisdiction of the Palestinian Authority (including the Gaza Strip). The telecommunication system in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is considerably dependent on the Israeli infrastructure, therefore, from most countries, dialing +972 would often be the better option to access phone numbers in the Palestinian territories. In some cases, when the number was allocated directly by an Israeli company, this would be the only option. However, from many Arab or Muslim countries that block the Israeli access code, dialing 970 is the only option to access the Palestinian telecommunication system. Syria is currently the only country that blocks both 972 and 970 access codes. Lebanon lifted the ban on the 970 code in July 2008 but still blocks the 972 code.^[1]

Palestinians use the Israeli telecommunication infrastructure either directly or through the Palestinian Paltel company, which allocates numbers reserved for it by the Israeli Ministry of Communication. The 059 prefix is reserved exclusively for the Palestinian Jawwal cellular communication company (a subsidiary of Paltel), and the 056 prefix is similarly reserved fro the Wataniya Telecom company. Note that these prefixes had been used in the past as Israeli internal dialing prefixes, but were replaced or merged with other dialing codes, and reintroduced for the exclusive use of the Palestinian telecommunication system.

Numbering System[link]

International[link]

00 XXX XX XXX XXXX - International Dialling

West Bank[link]

North West Bank[link]

04 24X XXXX  - Jenin Governorate
09 25X XXXX  - Tubas Governorate
09 26X XXXX  - Tulkarm Governorate
09 23X XXXX  - Nablus Governorate
09 29X XXXX  - Qalqilya Governorate
09 29X XXXX  - Salfit Governorate

Central West Bank[link]

02 29X XXXX  - Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate
02 23X XXXX  - Jericho Governorate
02 23X XXXX  - Jerusalem Governorate

South West Bank[link]

02 27X XXXX  - Bethlehem Governorate
02 22X XXXX  - Hebron Governorate

Gaza Strip[link]

08 24X XXXX  - North Gaza Governorate
08 28X XXXX  - Gaza Governorate
08 20X XXXX  - Khan Yunis Governorate
08 25X XXXX  - Deir al-Balah Governorate
08 21X XXXX  - Rafah Governorate

Cellular[link]

059 XXX XXXX - Mobile Jawwal
056 XXX XXXX - Mobile Wataniya Telecom

Services[link]

100 - Police
101 - Ambulance
102 - Fire

Toll[link]

1 700 - Business Toll
1 800 - Toll Free

See also[link]

Telecommunications in the Palestinian territories

References[link]

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Khaled Al Sabawi
Khaled Al Sabawi
Born	October 1, 1983
Work
Employer(s)	Union Construction and Investment

Khaled Al Sabawi (born October 1, 1983) is a Canadian-Palestinian engineer and Founder and President of MENA Geothermal and TABO Palestine. The son of Palestinian refugees from Gaza, he received his degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo in Canada in 2006 and later became the first certified Geothermal Engineer in the Middle East.^[1] Khaled was named "One of the World's Top Energy Entrepreneurs" by Global Post in 2010.^[2][3]

As part of MENA Geothermal, a green energy business, Khaled installed the first geothermal systems in Palestine in 2007. MENA Geothermal was awarded the National Energy Globe Award in 2008^[4] and is currently installing the largest geothermal system in the Middle East at the University of Madaba in Jordan.^[5]

Khaled's TABO initiative, Arabic for "title deed," is a development project which is part of Union Construction and Investment (UCI), one the largest real-estate development companies in Palestine. It offers affordable, registered plots of residential land in the West Bank. It is a response to the increasing cost of land purchase in Palestine and also protects land against Israeli annexation through title deed registration.^[6][7]

Political Views[link]

Khaled has been outspoken about Israel's "campaign of entry denials and visa restrictions directed towards foreign nationals working in Palestine," of which he was a victim in 2009. He was denied entry by Israel three times in the span of seven months, which he sees as part of the Israeli occupation's strategy to prevent the development of an independent Palestinian economy.^[8] Khaled has also spoken out against the negative impact that the "massive amount of foreign aid that is injected into the Palestinian economy, now totaling 30 percent of the Palestinian GDP" has had on the development of an independent economy. Among other things, he argues foreign aid undermines the Palestinian private sector's ability to recruit educated Palestinian professionals.^[9]

References[link]

External links[link]

• "Keeping Palestine Cool: A Different Kind of Underground Movement," Khaled Al Sabawi's TEDxRamallah talk
• MENA Geothermal
• TABO Palestine
• Union Construction and Investment
• "West Bank draws Canadian entrepreneurs," The Globe and Mail, September 11, 2011
• Profiles of Accomplished Palestinians: Khaled Al Sabawi, Institute for Middle East Understanding (IMEU)

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