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§594.513 Transactions with entities under the control of the Palestinian President and certain other entities.
(a) Effective April 12, 2006, U.S. persons are authorized to engage in all transactions otherwise prohibited under this part with the following entities and individuals:
(1) The Palestinian Authority Presidency, including only the Office of the President, Presidential Security, General Intelligence Apparatus, Governors and Governorate staff, the Attorney General's Office, the Palestine Investment Fund (PIF), the Border Crossings Administration, and the Palestine Broadcasting Corporation (including the Voice of Palestine, Wafa News Agency, and the General Public Information Agency/State Information Services);
(2) The Palestinian Judiciary, including the Higher Judicial Council;
(3) Members of the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) who were not elected to the PLC on the party slate of Hamas or any other Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO), Specially Designated Terrorist (SDT), or Specially Designated Global Terrorist (SDGT); and
(4) The following independent agencies:...
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GTSR/FTOSR/TSR GL 4 remains on OFAC's website but was incorporated in the corresponding sanctions regulations at 594.512, 595.510 and 597.508.
These authorities have partially been made redundant by General License 7 (and 7a), which authorizes all transactions with the Palestinian Authority, which means "means the Palestinian Authority government of President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad, or any successor Prime Minister appointed by President Abbas, including all branches, ministries, offices, and agencies (independent or otherwise)."
However, General License 7 (and 7a) do not include the Palestinian Legislative Council, in which FTO/SDGT/SDT Hamas still holds a majority of the seats. The individual ministers representing Hamas would presumably be subject to the financial institution-based...