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Ramallah residents were among the early joiners of the First Intifada.
The Intifada Unified Leadership, an umbrella organization of various Palestinian factions, distributed weekly bulletins on the streets of Ramallah with a schedule of the daily protests, strikes and action against Israeli patrols in the city.
At the demonstrations, tyres were burned in the street and the crowds threw stones and Molotov cocktails.
The IDF responded with tear gas and rubber bullets.
Schools in Ramallah were forcibly shut down, and opened gradually for a few hours a day.
House arrests were carried out and curfews were imposed that restricted travel and exports in what Palestinians regarded as collective punishment.
In response to the closure of schools, residents organized home schooling sessions to help students make up missed material ; this became one of the few symbols of civil disobedience.
The Intifada leadership organized " tree plantings " and resorted to the tactics used in pre-1948 Palestine, such as ordering general strikes in which no commercial businesses were allowed to open and no cars were allowed on the streets.

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