Vehicle registration plates of the Palestinian National Authority


The Palestinian National Authority requires their residents register their motor vehicles and display vehicle registration plates.
There are two different systems of registration plates: One for West Bank and other in Gaza Strip.

West Bank

Generally, registration plates in the West Bank have the Latin letter "P" for Palestine or Palestinian Authority on the right side; above that, the Arabic letter ف for فلسطين or السلطة الفلسطينية.

Private vehicles

Private vehicles have white plates with green numbers, the numbers have seven digits, the first shows the district of the registration:
Y-XXXX-ZX
The Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Transport has announced a new numbering system for vehicles that will be registered as of July 2018. According to the new method, vehicles will have a 6-character license number, which includes 5 digits and one Latin letter.
The format will be X-XXXX-X. The first five digits are a running number.
The last letter in the number shall be determined according to the city in which the vehicle was registered, and may be:
Vehicles serving the public transport have green plates with white numbers. Taxi plates always end in -30.

Plates for government vehicles

Vehicles belonging to the Palestinian Authority use white number plates with red numbers. Those are officials' cars, ambulances, fire brigade police and special police.
The numbers match the format XXXX with leading zeros.
Currently new registered police vehicles get also green-on-white plates ending in -99.

Test plates

Test plates for garages and car importers are blue with white writing and display the word "TEST" in Arabic and Hebrew above the number.

Gaza Strip

Until 2012 registration plates in the Gaza Strip had the same format as in the West Bank. In 2012 the authorities of the Gaza Strip replaced the PNA license plates described above with a new design. The new plates have a vertical Palestinian flag on the right in European style plate or horizontal flag on the top in American style plates. All the plates have white background. All numbers start with "3".

1967–1994

During this period of the Israeli governance of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestinians had license plates issued by the Israeli civil administration. Blue and white plates with a Hebrew letter in a white or orange field on the left side that identified the origin of the car's holder.