SMS API for Palestine: bulk SMS to +970 numbers
Palestine
Calling code +970
- Per SMS segment
- $0.04257
- Messages for $100
- 2,349
- Local language
- Arabic
- Encoding
- Unicode (UCS-2)
What a bulk SMS send to Palestine costs
| Messages | 1 segment | 2 segments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | $0.04257 | $0.08514 |
| 1,000 | $42.57 | $85.14 |
| 10,000 | $425.70 | $851.40 |
| 100,000 | $4,257.00 | $8,514.00 |
Number format in Palestine
Mobile numbers in Palestine have 9 digits after +970. Locally they are written with a leading 0 (0599 123 456); in the API that 0 is dropped, so the same number goes in the to field as +970 599 123 456.
Alphabet and segments
Text in Arabic is always Unicode, so a message to Palestine written in Arabic carries 70 characters in one segment and 67 in each part of a longer one. Codes and alerts written in English or plain Latin letters fit 160 characters, which halves the cost of a long notice.
Time zone and timing
Palestine changes its clocks: Gaza is on UTC+2 in January and UTC+3 in July. 09:00 in Gaza is 07:00 UTC in January and an hour earlier in UTC while summer time runs, so give send_at with the local offset (for example +02:00 in winter) and the API does the conversion.
Send to Palestine with one request
The answer comes back at once with the message id, the country the number was matched to (PS) and the price. A delivered or failed event follows on your webhook, and a failed message is refunded.
For a list, send the same text to up to 10,000 numbers with POST /v1/batches, or a personal text per number in messages.
curl https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $BULKSMSAPI_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"to": "+970599123456", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}'const res = await fetch("https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages", {
method: "POST",
headers: { Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.BULKSMSAPI_KEY}`, "Content-Type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({ to: "+970599123456", text: "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes." }),
});
console.log(await res.json()); // price: "0.04257", country: "PS"import json, os, urllib.request
req = urllib.request.Request(
"https://bulksmsapi.cc/v1/messages",
data=json.dumps({"to": "+970599123456", "text": "Your Northwind code is 482913. It expires in 10 minutes."}).encode(),
headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + os.environ["BULKSMSAPI_KEY"], "Content-Type": "application/json", "User-Agent": "northwind-app/1.0"},
method="POST",
)
with urllib.request.urlopen(req) as res:
print(json.load(res)["price"]) # "0.04257"What developers send to Palestine
Payment confirmations
Mobile banking apps in Ramallah send SMS confirmations to users after completing transactions.
Exam schedules
Universities in Gaza send SMS notifications to students about exam dates and locations.
Appointment reminders
Clinics in Bethlehem send SMS reminders to patients a day before their scheduled appointments.
Order updates
E-commerce stores in Nablus notify customers via SMS when their orders are ready for pickup.
More countries in Middle East
SMS to Palestine: questions
More answers on accounts, payments and the API are in the FAQ.
How much does it cost to send bulk SMS to Palestine?
How many SMS to Palestine does a $100 top-up send?
How do I write Palestine numbers for the API?
Start sending to Palestine
Create an account, top up from $40 and send to Palestine at $0.04257 per segment, from the console or with one API call.