In 1933, the Salvadoran government passed a law barring further immigration from Middle Eastern countries to El Salvador.

[2] In 1947, El Salvador abstained from voting in the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.

In May 2009, President Antonio Saca, a Salvadoran of Palestinian descent, paid a visit to the city of Bethlehem in Palestine.

During their meeting, both leaders discussed relations between both nations and Prime Minister Fayyad thanked President Saca for his country's decision of moving the Salvadoran embassy from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv in 2006.

In October 2011, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas paid an official visit to El Salvador.