State of Palestine

Relations between Brazil and Palestine dates back to 1975, when the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), as a national liberation movement, was authorized to appoint a representative in Brasilia. In 1993, Brazil authorized the opening of a special Palestinian delegation in Brasilia, whose status was matched by that of an embassy in 1998. In 2004, the Representative Office of Brazil in Ramallah was opened.

In December 2010, Brazil recognized the State of Palestine on the borders prior to the 1967 Six-Day War. Furthermore, Brazil co-sponsored and campaigned in favor of Resolution 67/19, which elevated the status of Palestine to a non-observer state member of the United Nations in 2012. Brazil has positioned itself in favor of Palestine's entry into multilateral organizations and supported Palestine's entry into UNESCO in 2011.

Brazil and Palestine established, in 2008, a political consultations mechanism. Four meetings of the mechanism were held: in 2008, 2010, 2011 and 2017.

The Brazilian government has traditional humanitarian cooperation established with Palestine. Since 2007, it has allocated more than $23 million to initiatives of this kind, through the donation of resources, medicines, food, among others, in particular  to the Palestinian Authority, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) and to the UN World Food Program (WFP). In June 2023, an additional donation of $100,000 to UNRWA was announced. In 2014, Brazil became a member of the UNRWA Advisory Commission (AdCom), the Agency's highest intergovernmental body. It is the only Latin American country in the organization.

Trade flow between Brazil and Palestine in 2022 totaled $30.4 million, with a Brazilian surplus of $29.8 million.

The number of Brazilians living in Palestine is estimated at around 4,000 Brazilians residing in Palestine, most of them have with dual nationality.

Brazil maintains its historic commitment to the two-State solution, with Palestine and Israel living side by side, in peace and security, within mutually agreed and internationally recognized borders.

Chronology of bilateral relations

1975 – Establishment of relations between Brazil and Palestine. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is authorized to appoint a representative in Brasília

1993 – Brazil authorizes the opening of the Special Palestinian Delegation in Brasília, with diplomatic status equivalent to that of an international organization

1995 - Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian National Authority and leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization, visits Brazil .

1998 – The status of the Special Palestinian Delegation is elevated to that of an Embassy

2004 - Brazil opens a Representative Office in Ramallah

2005 – Foreign Minister Celso Amorim visits Palestine. President Mahmoud Abbas visits Brazil, on the occasion of the 1st Summit of South America–Arab Countries (ASPA)

2008 - Foreign Minister Celso Amorim visits Palestine. The Foreign Minsiter of Palestine, Riad Malki, visits Brazil

2009 - Foreign Minister Celso Amorim visits Palestine . Brazil announces, on the occasion of the Sharm El-Sheikh Conference, a donation of $10 million for the reconstruction of Gaza. The President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, visits Brazil

2010 - Foreign Minister Celso Amorim visits Palestine. Fatah's International Relations Commissioner, Nabil Shaath, visits Brazil. President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva visits Palestine. The Meeting of IBSA Ministers is held in Brasília, with the presence of the Foreign Minister of Palestine, Riad Malki. Brazil recognizes the State of Palestine. The Special Palestinian Delegation in Brasília is renamed the Embassy of the State of Palestine

2011 - President Mahmoud Abbas visits Brazil, on the occasion of the inauguration of President Dilma Rousseff. The MERCOSUR-Palestine Free Trade Agreement is signed in Montevideo. With the Brazilian support and co-sponsorship, the United Nations General Assembly approves Resolution 67/19, which elevates the status of Palestine in the United Nations to a non-member Observer State

2012 – Foreign Minister Antonio de Aguiar Patriota visits Palestine. Fatah's International Relations Commissioner, Nabil Shaath, visits Brazil. Palestine’s Minister of Labor Ahmed Majdalani visits Brazil. Vice-President of the Republic Michel Temer visits Palestine. Minister of Health Alexandre Padilha visits Palestine

2014 – The Governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Tarso Genro, visits Palestine. Donation of 11,500 tons of rice to the UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees). Brazil joins the UNRWA Advisory Commission. Announcement of the donation of 6 thousand tons of rice to UNRWA on the occasion of the Gaza Reconstruction Conference, held in Cairo

2015 – Foreign Minister Riad Malki visits Brazil on the occasion of the inauguration of President Dilma Rousseff. The President of the Chamber of Deputies, Eduardo Cunha, visits Palestine

2016 - President of the Republic Michel Temer meets with the President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly

2017 -  Minister of Health Ricardo Barros visits Palestine. President of the Republic Michel Temer meets with the President of Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly. President of the Chamber of Deputies Rodrigo Maia visits Palestine.

2018 – Foreign Minister Aloysio Nunes Ferreira visits Palestine

2023 – Foreign Minister Riad Malki visits Brazil on the occasion of the inauguration of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva