State of Palestine
AI behavior law: bot and agent disclosure, crawler and training-data rules, automated-agent transactions, and algorithmic decision-making.
Summary
The State of Palestine presents a fragmented and uncertain legal environment. The Palestinian Authority (PA) administers the West Bank and Gaza is controlled by Hamas; different legal frameworks apply across the territory and enforcement is inconsistent and conflict-affected. Law by Decree No. 10 of 2018 on Cybercrime (as amended by Law by Decree No. 28 of 2020) is the primary digital-crime statute for PA-administered areas; it criminalises unauthorized access to electronic systems, data disruption, and various content offences, and has been widely criticized by human rights organizations for overbroad provisions restricting expression. No comprehensive personal-data protection law has been enacted; human rights organizations have documented this as an ongoing legal gap. There is no TDM exception and no EU-style sui generis database right. The ongoing armed conflict in Gaza since October 2023 has severely disrupted legal institutions, infrastructure, and enforcement capacity across the territory. Confidence is low and human review is essential before any reliance on this analysis.
Automated-access legality
Carried forward from the crawler-law index. Governs whether automated clients may access public websites in this jurisdiction.
| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Authorization test | unsettled |
| Public-page carve-out | unsettled |
| Terms-of-service browsewrap enforceable | unsettled |
| Terms-of-service clickwrap enforceable | unsettled |
| Copyright exception model | closed list |
| Text and data mining — commercial status | unsettled |
| Text and data mining — opt-out mechanism | none |
| robots.txt legal weight | non binding notice |
| AI training-specific law | none |
| Privacy regime | No comprehensive data-protection law enacted (PA territory) |
| Trespass to chattels | not recognized |
Last reviewed: 2026-05-23. Confidence: low. Not legal advice.