Servers in country
Providers with exit locations in the Palestinian Territories: a server here gives you an address in the country. The register’s table records no mandate for VPN operators here; the briefing below sets out what the law asks of providers.
Only a few providers publish an exit here.
Providers with exit locations in a country — a fact about a network, kept deliberately apart from where the company is registered. Only providers whose country list has a source appear: a provider that publishes nothing simply does not show up, which is a criterion already in the data rather than an editorial one.
A court decides on any block of a hosted site under Palestine’s cybercrime law, a 2018 Law by Decree, and a judge’s permission is needed to surveil communications in an investigation. Service providers must also keep subscriber information for at least three years and block content on a judicial order.
Article 31 of Law by Decree No. 10 of 2018 on Cybercrime, as added by Law by Decree No. 38 of 2021, requires a service provider, in accordance with the prescribed legal procedures, to give the competent authorities subscriber information on the request of the Public Prosecution or the competent court, and to block links, content or applications on judicial orders.
It must also keep subscriber information for not less than three years. On a judge’s decision it must also help collect or record electronic information. A service provider is any person who gives users the ability to communicate by information technology, or who processes, stores or hosts data for such a provider or its users; subscriber information covers the type and duration of service, identity, address and payment details (article 1).
The Public Prosecution may obtain traffic data and subscriber information (article 33). Whether a VPN operator is a service provider under the decree is not established. Law by Decree No. 28 of 2020 amended article 15, on threats and extortion; Law by Decree No. 38 of 2021 amended articles 1, 3 and 52 and added articles 31 to 50.
Article 39 lets the investigating authorities, on finding hosted websites broadcasting from inside or outside Palestine material that may threaten national security, public order or public morals, report to the Attorney General and request permission to block the site or some of its links.
The Attorney General submits the application to the Court of Conciliation within 24 hours; the court decides the same day, and a block lasts at most six months unless extended under the same article. Article 30 makes it an offence, punishable by confinement of at least three months, a fine of 200 to 1,000 Jordanian dinars, or both, deliberately to disseminate information on a blocked site.
The decree punishes creating a site, application or account, or disseminating information, with certain intentions. Displaying words or conduct that may give rise to racist or religious hatred or discrimination against a group carries up to one year and a fine of 200 to 1,000 dinars, or both (article 24). Misrepresenting or justifying genocide or crimes against humanity carries not less than ten years’ imprisonment (article 25).
Publishing news, images or recordings that unlawfully interfere with private or family life, even if true, carries at least one year, a fine of 1,000 to 3,000 dinars, or both (article 22). Threats and extortion by electronic means are punished under article 15, as amended in 2020. An account holder is identified through the provider, which must supply subscriber information to the prosecution or court (article 31).
Searches need a reasoned and specific warrant (article 32). In an investigation of an offence punishable by at least a year’s confinement, the judge of the Court of Conciliation may permit the Attorney General to surveil and record communications for fifteen days, renewable once (article 34). Every block of a hosted site needs a court decision (article 39).
The decree was issued by the President as a Law by Decree under article 43 of the Amended Basic Law of 2003, and article 3 sets up a specialised cybercrime unit within the police and security forces under the judicial supervision of the Public Prosecution. The order of the rows is the security score, and a server’s location is not a recommendation.
Palestinian Territories
Only a provider that publishes a country list appears here at all — 41 of the 77 on file. The other 27 are not missing research: they publish no list, and U02_server_countries is unknown for them rather than filled from the number their marketing claims.
A provider that says “100+ countries” and enumerates none gets no page on any of them, and the count printed on its own record is the length of the list, never the claim. With 41 providers behind 180 countries, the long tail of these pages carries one or two rows.
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Coverage147countries
Paying monthly$9.99monthly
Paying yearly$53.88yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices10at once
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Coverage168countries
Paying monthly$11.99monthly
Paying yearly$47.84yearly total
Free tierYeslimited free plan
Devices5at once
Security
Usability
