List of twin towns and sister cities in the Palestinian territories

Map of central Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip.

This is a list of places in the Palestinian territories having standing links to local communities in other countries. In most cases, the association, especially when formalised by local government, is known as town twinning (though other terms, such as "partner towns", "sister cities" or "brother cities" are sometimes used instead), and while most of the places included are towns, the list also comprises villages, cities, districts, counties, etc. with similar links.

East Jerusalem

• Fes, Morocco (1982)^[1]

Abu Dis

• Camden, United Kingdom^[2]

Bethlehem

Bethlehem is twinned with:^[3][4][5]

Marrickville, Australia[5] Steyr, Austria[5] Natal, Brazil[5] Valinhos, Brazil[5] Třebechovice pod Orebem, Czech Republic Villa Alemana, Chile Concepción, Chile Chartres, France[5] Grenoble, France[6] Paray-le-Monial, France[5] Strasbourg, France Athens, Greece[5] Cologne, Germany[5] Assisi, Italy[5] Brescia, Italy[5] Civitavecchia, Italy[5]

Florence, Italy[5] Greccio, Italy[5] Lazio, Italy Milan, Italy (2000) [5][7] Montevarchi, Italy Orvieto, Italy[5] Pavia, Italy Pratovecchio, Italy[5] San Miniato, Italy Sant'Anastasia, Italy[5] Umbria, Italy[5] Verona, Italy[5] Monterrey, Mexico[5] Rabat, Morocco[5] The Hague, Netherlands[5] Sarpsborg, Norway[5]

Cusco, Peru[5] Częstochowa, Poland [3][5] Lisbon, Portugal[5] Saint Petersburg, Russia[5] Pretoria, South Africa[5] Zaragoza, Spain[8] Córdoba, Spain Leganés, Spain Glasgow, United Kingdom[5] Yalvac, Turkey[5] Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates[5] Burlington, United States[5] Joplin, United States Orlando, United States[5] Madaba, Jordan[5]

Gaza City

Dunkerque, France (1996)[9] Tel Aviv, Israel (1998)[10] Moyle, United Kingdom (2012)[11]

Tabriz, Iran[12] Turin, Italy (1997)[13] Tromsø, Norway (2001)[14]

Cascais, Portugal[15] Barcelona, Spain (1998)[16] Camden, NJ, United States [17]

Jabalia

• Groningen, Netherlands^[18]

Jericho

Alessandria, Italy Pisa, Italy (2000)[19] Lyon, France

Calipatria, California, United States Lærdal, Norway (1998)

Iași, Romania Eger, Hungary (2013)[20]

Khan Yunis

• Hamar, Norway
• Palermo, Italy

Nablus

Nablus is twinned, or has sister city relationships with:^[21]

Lille, France[22] Dublin, Ireland Como, Italy Florence, Italy

Naples, Italy Toscana, Italy Poznań, Poland[23] Rabat, Morocco

Stavanger, Norway Khasavyurt, Russia Dundee, United Kingdom[24]

Rafah

• Pesaro, Italy
• Olympia, WA, United States^[25]

Ramallah

• Rio de Janeiro, Brazil ^[26]
• Trondheim, Norway^[27]
• Muscatine, Iowa, United States

Zababdeh

• Ixelles, Belgium^[28]
• Graz, Austria

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28. "Welcome to Zababdeh". Ixelles.be. Retrieved 8 November 2013.