# Israel and the PLO sign the Hebron Protocol

Date: 1997

## The fact

On 17 January 1997 Israel and the PLO signed the Protocol Concerning the Redeployment in Hebron, with [Netanyahu](/people/benjamin-netanyahu) as prime minister.

## Context

Arafat signed. Neighbouring Wye 1998 is later. Hebron’s split map remains. He did not write a municipal charter for H1/H2 as a final peace.

Wye 1998 is neighbouring. The 1996 first premiership is the parent term.

The Prime Minister of Israel chairs the cabinet, is the political principal of the IDF, and can table Knesset bills. He does not write a Hamas military order, an ICC judgment, a US presidential proclamation, or a UN Security Council resolution.

## Evidence and sources

United Nations carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently.

## Significance

The path is [humanitarian access](/drivers/humanitarian-access): a completed partial redeployment in Hebron is a dated interim opening, remaining split named.

## What is established and what is not

Established: 17 January 1997 Hebron Protocol signature, recorded at UNISPAL.

Not established: that Hebron’s split ended, or a unique later casualty coefficient from that signing.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

Arafat signed. Implementers on both sides still had to redeploy.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Israel and the PLO sign the Hebron Protocol, not a later speech about Israel and the PLO sign the Hebron Protocol.

Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Israel and the PLO sign the Hebron Protocol on 1997-01-17 is not a licence to treat every later United Nations communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Israel and the PLO sign the Hebron Protocol into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to He signed for Israel. Arafat signed. Implementers on both sides still had to redeploy. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series.

## People

- Benjamin Netanyahu: https://factrail.ai/people/benjamin-netanyahu

## Drivers

- Humanitarian Access: https://factrail.ai/drivers/humanitarian-access

## Sources

- https://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-palestinians-hebron-idUSKCN0Q70M2
- https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-186435/

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/il-hebron-1997