Map of the two Palestinian territories, highlighted in green: the West Bank (right) and the Gaza Strip (left)
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Mixed legality:
West Bank – legal since 1951, equal age of consent
Gaza Strip – no consensus on applicability of British 1936 Sexual offences provisions to homosexual conduct
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Recognition of relationships
No recognition of same-sex couples
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Homosexuality in the Palestinian territories is considered a taboo subject; lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people experience persecution and violence. There is a significant legal divide between the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, with the former having more progressive laws and the latter having more conservative laws. Shortly after the Jordanian annexation of the West Bank in 1950, same-sex acts were decriminalized across the territory with the adoption of the Jordanian Penal Code of 1951. In the Egyptian-occupied Gaza Strip and under Hamas' rule, however, no such initiative was implemented.
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