CT-GL-4

Summary

General License No. 4, issued by OFAC under 31 C.F.R. Parts 594, 595, and 597, authorizes U.S. persons to engage in all otherwise prohibited transactions with specified Palestinian Authority entities and individuals under the Palestinian President's control. It also permits U.S. financial institutions to reject (rather than block) transactions with Hamas-affiliated Palestinian Legislative Council members who are not on the SDN list. The license explicitly does not authorize debits to Palestinian Authority accounts at U.S. financial institutions or to any blocked accounts.

Authorized activities

• All transactions with the Palestinian Authority Presidency, including the Office of the President, Presidential Security, General Intelligence Apparatus, Governors and Governorate staff, Attorney General's Office, Palestine Investment Fund (PIF), Border Crossings Administration, and Palestine Broadcasting Corporation (Voice of Palestine, Wafa News Agency, General Public Information Agency/State Information Services)
• All transactions with the Palestinian Judiciary, including the Higher Judicial Council
• All transactions with members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) who were not elected on the party slate of Hamas or any other FTO, SDT, or SDGT
• All transactions with the Central Elections Commission
• All transactions with the Independent Citizens Rights Commission
• All transactions with the General Audit Authority / External Audit Agency
• All transactions with the Palestinian Monetary Authority
• U.S. financial institutions may reject transactions with Hamas-slate PLC members not named on the OFAC SDN list

Conditions

Transactions with Hamas-slate PLC members may only be rejected (not processed) by U.S. financial institutions, and only if those individuals are not named on OFAC's SDN list. Nothing in the license authorizes a debit to a Palestinian Authority account on the books of a U.S. financial institution or to any account blocked pursuant to 31 C.F.R. parts 594, 595, or 597.