Facilities

According to Article (11) of the Statute of Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), the Palestinian National Council - to facilitate its work - forms the standing committees that PNC deems necessary to form. After the twenty-third session of the PNC on 30 April – 3 May 2018, the committees are now as follows:

1. Economic and Financial Committee: Chairman: Dr. Muhammad Shtayyeh

                                                                Rapporteur: Musa Qadimat

2. Committee of Foreign Parliamentary Affairs: Chairman: - Vacanct

                                                                              Rapporteur: Ibrahim Al-Masri

3. Committee of Women and Childhood Affairs: Chairwoman: Dalal Salama

                                                                               Rapporteur: Sawsan Shannar

4. The Popular Resistance Committee: Chairman: Mahmoud Al-Aloul

                                                               Rapporteur: Walid Assaf

5. People's Organizing Committee: Chairman: Vacant

                                                         Rapporteur: Hussein Al-Abed

6. Al-Quds Committee: Chairman: Abbas Zaki

                                       Rapporteur: Jihad Abu Znaid

7. Media and Thought Committee: Chairman: Vacant

                                                        Rapporteur: Nasser Abu Bakr

8. Legal Committee: Chairman: Hussein Shabana

                                                    Rapporteur: Nadim Brahma

9. Health Affairs Committee: Chairman: Dr. Jawad Awad (became ambassador in March 2022)

                                                Rapporteur: Dr. Nizam Najib

10. Monitoring, Accountability and Fact-Finding Committee: Chairman: Vacant

                                                                                                   Rapporteur: Vacant

11. Political Committee: Chairman: Saleh Mohammad Nasser

                                        Rapporteur: Mowafaq Matar

12. Refugee Affairs and Right of Return Committee: Chairman: Walid Al-Awad

                                                                                      Rapporteur: Salah Al-Yousef

13. Education, Science and Culture Committee: Chairman: Vacant

                                                                             Rapporteur: Vacant

Article (34) of the PNC’s bylaws: “The PNC may - by a decision of PNC - form other committees for specific purposes, and dispense with some of these committees, or merge the work of two or more committees into one committee.”