On the one hand, same-sex acts were decriminalized in the Jordanian-controlled West Bank in 1951 and remain so to this day. Īccording to a 2010 compendium of laws against homosexuality produced by the International Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual and Intersex Association (ILGA), the decriminalization of homosexuality in Palestine is patchwork. A significant portion of Palestinian-Arab lawmakers and community leaders in Israel hold deeply anti-LGBT views, as well. While hundreds of queer Palestinians are reported to have fled to Israel because of the hostility they face in Palestine, they have also been subject to house arrest or deportation by Israeli authorities on account of the inapplicability of the law of asylum to areas or nations in which Israel is in conflict. In the State of Palestine, there is no specific, stand-alone civil rights legislation that protects LGBT people from discrimination or harassment.
