Vehicle registration plates of the State of Palestine

The Palestinian Authority's Ministry of Transport has announced a new numbering system for vehicles registered as of July 2018.

For the first few years of issuance of this format until 2005, the shape and design of the license plate was slightly different.

The license plate also featured an embossed green Eagle of Saladdin, the official emblem of Palestine.

Vehicles belonging to the Palestinian Authority such as officials' cars, ambulances, fire brigade police and special military police use white number plates with red numbers in the XXXX format with leading zeros.

This class of license plates, unique in the world, is the outcome of the complications related to the Israeli–Palestinian peace process.

In effect, this resulted in Israeli insurance companies paying for Gaza's used car trade.

The Arabic letter "م" stands for المقيدة, meaning "restricted", and was effectively a euphemism referring to the vehicle's origins.

In 2021, vehicle license plates in the Gaza Strip underwent a design change, with a pattern of the word "Palestine" in Arabic and English overlaid on the numbers, and a horizontal Palestinian flag in place of the previous vertical, downward-facing flag.

Governmental vehicles such as police cars, ambulances operated by the Ministry of Health and others have red digits and borders, with numbers ending in "5X".

For example, there was no code for what's today Tubas Governorate, and the corresponding area was treated as subdivisions of Jenin.

Similar to the occupied West Bank, each region was assigned a Hebrew letter code.

Later, in from late 1970s onward, the letter was incorporated onto the license plates, on the left side, on a white background, and surrounded by a uniquely shaped, round-cornered rectangle.

However, the format was slightly changed in late 1980s, with the letter code being moved to the right hand side, and having unique colours as opposed to black, for each of the 3 districts.