Palestine, State of
Bahrain passportEdit check
Permit, stay set by the visa
Before you travel: entry is by permit from the administering authority, not a visa. See the conditions for who issues it.
How long you may stay is set by your visa.
Entry and stay only. What this covers
Entry conditions2 to check
- Bahrain is listed in Appendix E of the COGAT procedure, so its nationals must receive a visit permit from the Palestinian Authority and may not submit requests or receive permits under that procedure at all — an application to an Israeli representative office is not available. The appendix states its list is determined from time to time, so membership is current as of the 21 December 2022 revision.
- For the Gaza Strip, all foreigners must apply to the Palestinian Ministry of Interior - General Directorate of Residence and Foreign Affairs - a week before the date of entry, and must regulate their residence with the Directorate if they wish to stay for more than a week.
Source & evidence Read the original words
Official wording
{"COUNTRY_L":"BAHREIN","COUNTRY_CODE":"BHR","EXT_COUNTRY_ID":61,"NEED_PERMIT":1,"DIPLOMAT_PERMIT":0,"Official_Permit":0,"NEED_PERMIT_BIOMETRIC":1,"DIPLOMAT_PERMIT_BIOMETRIC":0,"Official_Permit_Biometric":0,"Official_country_name":"Bahrain","passport_country":"","Exists_Today":"","ccc":"","fff":"","COUNTRY_TEL":"BH"}
Aevamo’s reading
The State of Palestine does not operate its own border crossings; every foreigner entering the West Bank passes through an Israeli-controlled crossing (Allenby Bridge or Ben Gurion airport), and the Israeli COGAT 'Procedure for Entry and Residence of Foreigners in the Judea and Samaria Area' (61 pages, revision 21 December 2022) is the operative instrument that creates the entry obligation a traveller faces: it grants or refuses the visit permit, sets the three-month cap, and routes each nationality to a crossing application, an Israeli representative office, or a Palestinian Authority permit. The Palestinian Ministry of Interior's own statement (pa-moi-entry) creates the parallel obligation for the Gaza Strip and defines the regime's scope ('foreigners, non-Palestinians'), which places PSE holders outside the foreigner regime.
The record shows NEED_PERMIT 1 for Bahrain, so its nationals are not on Israel's visa-exemption list and must obtain an entry permit in advance; the route that permit takes is fixed by the COGAT procedure, quoted in the condition, because Appendix E names Bahrain (spelled 'Bahrein' there) and clause 2.1.F sends Appendix E nationals to a Palestinian Authority visit permit.
Source details
How the documents behind this regime are dated
cogat-procedure: the gov.il PDF of the COGAT procedure, 61 pages, stating 'Date of revision: 21 Dec 2022'; the gov.il landing page records Publish Date 20.02.2022 and Updated date 30.01.2023 (retrieved through a web archive of the gov.il address after the live server refused). piba-eta-data: live ETA-IL dataset with no internal date, fetched 2026-08-29. govil-eta-il: live gov.il page carrying 'Beginning 1.1.2025, the ETA-IL program will be in force', fetched 2026-08-30. israel-visa-list: 'This page was last updated on 07.11.2024'. pa-moi-entry: '10 أكتوبر/تشرين الأول 2011' — served from cache on 2026-08-29 (the live source refused a fresh request; the bytes are from the real fetch of 2026-08-21). pse-moi-residence: no date stated.
What this answer covers Limits & assumptions
Work and residence rights are separate from this check. This is the entry rule and the length of stay the instrument grants. It is not a decision about you: the officer at the border decides admission, and we do not evaluate the purpose of your trip, your passport's remaining validity, an onward ticket, funds, insurance or health requirements.
Informational planning, not legal or immigration advice. The source is linked so you can check our reading.