Since May 1, Amal Jadou Chaaka has advised Prime Minister Mohammed Moustafa on international policy. Previously, for almost five years, she served as Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Palestinian Expatriates, after assisting the Minister of European Affairs for six years. In 2009, she obtained her first accreditation abroad by being appointed deputy head of the Palestine mission in Washington. So many functions which allowed him to polish the multiple facets of his favorite field: foreign policy.
Gaza has descended into anarchy: “Cases of gender-based violence, rape and child abuse have increased”
Holder of a master’s degree in international studies from Birzeit University (north of Ramallah), she then obtained a doctorate in law and diplomacy at the Fletcher School of Tufts University in the United States, and followed the program on negotiations at Harvard. His doctoral dissertation focused on the mediating role played by successive U.S. administrations in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
The very first Palestinian ambassador was born in the Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem (south of Jerusalem), in the West Bank occupied by Israel since 1967. Her statements regularly denounce “the devastating impact” of the Israeli policy of oppression and colonization on the Palestinian people.
