Change description : 2025-10-02 17:03:00: Updated to change ‘Occupied Palestinian Territories’ to ‘Palestine’, and updated the ‘Points to note’ section in both documents. [Guidance and regulation]
Country policy and information notes (previously known as country information and guidance reports) are used by UK Visas and Immigration officials to make decisions in asylum and human rights applications.
The notes also give information on asylum seekers’ countries of origin.
Information about the humanitarian situation in Gaza has been removed as it no longer accurately reflects the current situation.
26 July 2022
Occupied Palestininan Territories: the humanitarian situation in Gaza version 3.0 added.
6 March 2020
Added Home Office fact-finding mission report.
8 March 2019
Occupied Palestinian Territory (Gaza): security and humanitarian situation version 2.0 added.
10 January 2019
Background information, including actors of protection, and internal relocation published.
24 February 2017
'Operational guidance note: Occupied Palestinian Territories, March 2013' and 'Country of origin information report: Occupied Palestinian Territories, 15 May 2012' removed.