Palestine (E4) is New DX Century Club Entity

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The Gaza Strip (shown above) and the West Bank compose the area goverened by the Palestinian Authority.

Effective October 1, 1999, Palestine (E4) will be added to the DXCC List. Contacts made with E4 stations after February 1, 1999, will count for this new DXCC entity. Under the DXCC rules, contacts with the deleted entity of Palestine made prior to June 30, 1968, will not count for DXCC credit. There is no commonality of territory or administration. The International Telecommunication Union allocated the call sign prefix E4 for use by Palestine in its Operational Bulletin No. 685 of February 1, 1999. This is in accordance with Resolution PLEN/3 of the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference held last fall in Minneapolis. This call sign allocation meets the requirement of the current DXCC List Criteria, Section 1(b).