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The Mukataa in Ramallah, also known as Arafat's Compound was raided by the Israel Defense Forces and placed under siege on 29 March 2002 during Operation Defensive Shield.
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Mukataa and Ramallah
Honour guard at attention over Yasser Arafat's tombstone in mausoleum, opened 10 November 2007 at the PNA Mukataa # Arafat's compound | Presidential headquarters in Ramallah
Following the Cairo procession, Arafat was " temporarily " buried within the Mukataa in Ramallah ; tens of thousands of Palestinians attended the ceremony.
Mukataa in Ramallah
Mukataa and Arafat's
Jerusalem was the first choice, but Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said he would not allow this ; and so, following Arafat's death on November 11, the Palestinian leadership decided that he was to be " temporarily " interred in the Mukataa compound, pending the establishment of a Palestinian state and the transfer of his body to the Dome of the Rock compound on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
New medical records that were released in July 2012 showed that Arafat's condition was initially diagnosed as viral gastroenteritis by his Arab doctors who took care of him in the West Bank in the Mukataa before he was airlifted to France, although his condition later improved and he even joined in the fast of Ramadan.
Mukataa and was
The Mukataa was later partially demolished by IDF armored bulldozers in order to isolate Arafat.
Mukataa and .
Mukataa (, " The Separated ") is the name used to refer to the offices and administrative centers of the Palestinian National Authority.
Some Mukataas, including the Mukataa in Hebron, were entirely demolished.
Plans for Arafat to lie in state at the Mukataa prior to burial were canceled, because thousands of emotional mourners overwhelmed Palestinian security forces.
* IDF Bulldozers tear down the Mukataa ( Waronline. org Forums )
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Ramallah and also
* The Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip ( also called Oslo 2 ), signed on 28 September 1995 gave Palestinians self-rule in Bethlehem, Hebron, Jenin, Nablus, Qalqilya, Ramallah, Tulkarm, and some 450 villages.
In 2012, KFC was the first American fast food restaurant to operate in the West Bank ; it opened in Ramallah ; a Pizza Hut is also planned.
Besides Jerusalem MAGAV also provides security, conducts military operations, raids and arrests on Palestinian people in cities like Jenin, Nablus, Jericho, Qalqilyah, Tul-Karem, Ramallah and Hebron.
Kalandia () also Qalandiya is a Palestinian village located in the West Bank, between Jerusalem and Ramallah.
The Mukaatas in Ramallah and Gaza, the two major Palestinian cities, were also used as headquarters to the high Palestinian Authority leadership, including as office for Yasser Arafat, long-time Palestinian Authority president.
MAP and the ‘ Mothers ’ School Society ’ are funding a school programme in the Nablus district, while also contributing to the emergency health services of 3 villages west of Ramallah in partnership with the ‘ Health Work Committees ’.
Headquartered in New York City, Seeds of Peace also has offices in Amman, Cairo, Gaza, Jerusalem, Kabul, Lahore, Mumbai, Otisfield, Ramallah and Tel Aviv.
Seeds of Peace also has opened central offices in Tel Aviv and Ramallah and smaller offices in Amman, Lahore, Mumbai and Kabul.
Atarot Airport, ( also Kalandia Airport and Jerusalem Airport ) was a small airport located between Jerusalem and Ramallah.
Additionally to long term projects the Sakakini centre has also transfers some of its activities to facilities outside Ramallah, such as to Bir Zeit, Gaza City, and Bethlehem, to enable continuation of the projects during Israeli imposed curfews.
In Ramallah, one Palestinian was shot dead and 11 others injured when soldiers clashed with 2, 000 demonstrators who burned pictures of Ariel Sharon and waved Iraqi and Palestinian flags ; Palestinian gunmen also joined the clashes after an hour, drawing heavy Israeli fire from tank-mounted machine guns.
In America, the tradition has not been lost and is held in the same places as it would in the original homeland and the dance music is also commonly played in America at Arab-community cultural centers and conventions such as the annual convention hosted by the American Federation of Ramallah Palestine.
Ramallah and known
The years between 1993 and 2000 ( known locally as the " Oslo Years ") brought relative prosperity to Ramallah.
The area is further divided into 8 military administrative regions: Menashe ( Jenin area ), HaBik ' a ( Jordan Valley ), Shomron ( Shechem area, known in Arabic as Nablus ), Efrayim ( Tulkarm area ), Binyamin ( Ramallah / al-Bireh area ), Maccabim ( Maccabim area ), Etzion ( Bethlehem area ) and Yehuda ( Hebron area ).
Kalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah is known as a frequent flash point between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces.
Born in Ramallah in 1921 to a well known Christian family that belonged to the Anglican Episcopalian Church, Majaj was educated at St George's High School in Jerusalem ( part of the Anglican bishopric ), going on to the American University of Beirut in 1945 and to London University, where he studied medicine, specialising in child health.
The nature reserve is noteworthy as a habitat for the Hedera helix ivy, not known to grow anywhere else between the region of Edom to the south and the Galilee to the north, as well as the Teucrium montbretii, which grows only in the vicinity of Ramallah.
Ramallah and Arafat's
On 6 May 2002, the Israeli government released a report, based in part on documents captured during the Israeli raid of Arafat's Ramallah headquarters, which included copies of papers signed by Arafat authorizing funding for al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades ' activities.
During Israel's Operation Defensive Shield, the Israel army recovered counterfeit money and documents from Arafat's Ramallah headquarters.
Arafat's " temporary " tomb in Ramallah, 2004
This culminated with the group entering Yassir Arafat's headquarters in Ramallah, at the time besieged by Israeli forces.
* Israeli-Palestinian conflict: After a suicide bomber kills 5 and wounds more than 60 on a bus next to Tel Aviv's Great Synagogue, Israeli troops, tanks, and bulldozers destroy buildings in Yasser Arafat's Ramallah headquarters.
* The ISM received extensive media coverage of its presence in Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah and at the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem.
Palestinian honor guard stationed at Arafat's temporary tomb in Ramallah
Dr. Joseph Zimmerman, an Israeli specialist who reviewed the Ramallah medical file said Arafat's early symptoms were not consistent with viral gastroenteritis, and didn't believe that type of viral infection would lead to death.
Ramallah and Compound
Barghouti survived but was arrested by the Israeli Army in Ramallah, on April 15, 2002 and transferred to the ' Russian Compound ' police station in Jerusalem.
Ramallah and was
In the same month, Sharon ordered Arafat to be confined to his Mukata ' a headquarters in Ramallah, following an attack in the Israeli city of Hadera ; US President George W. Bush supported Sharon's action, claiming that Arafat was " an obstacle to the peace.
The team claimed that part of the Palestinian leader's wealth was in a secret portfolio worth close to $ 1 billion, with investments in companies like a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Ramallah, a Tunisian cell phone company and venture capital funds in the US and the Cayman Islands.
With a population of nearly 25, 500, Ramallah was historically a Christian town, but today Muslims form the majority of the population, with a strong Christian minority.
Modern Ramallah was founded in the mid-16th century by the Haddadins, a Jordanian tribe of brothers descended from Ghassanid Christian Arabs.
The Israel Defense Force remained in control of the territories, the freedom of movement enjoyed by Ramallah residents prior to the first Intifada was not restored.
A network of bypass roads for use of Israeli citizens only was built around Ramallah, and land was confiscated for settlements.
A Palestinian passport issued to Ramallah residents was not valid unless the serial number was registered with the Israeli authorities, who controlled border crossings.
In 2002, Ramallah was reoccupied by Israel in an IDF operation codenamed Operation Defensive Shield, which resulted in curfews, electricity cuts, school closures and disruptions of commercial life.
Many Ramallah institutions, including government ministries, were vandalized, and equipment was destroyed or stolen.
After suicide bombings in Haifa, Arafat was confined to the Ramallah compound.
" One local boasted to a journalist that “ Ramallah is becoming the de facto capital of Palestine .” This boast was seconded by the New York Times which, in 2010, called Ramallah the " de facto capital of the West Bank.
The term " Natufian " was coined by Dorothy Garrod who studied the Shuqba cave in Wadi an-Natuf, Palestinian Territories, about halfway between Tel Aviv and Ramallah.
Barghouti was arrested by Israel Defense Forces in 2002 in Ramallah.
Barghouti was born in the village of Kobar near Ramallah, and comes from the Barghouti clan, an extended family from Deir Ghassaneh.
In the lists, its best vote was 9. 4 % in Bethlehem, followed by 6. 6 % in Ramallah and al-Bireh, and 6. 5 % in North Gaza.
Abu Ali Mustafa was elected to replace him, but was assassinated on 27 August 2001 when an Israeli helicopter fired rockets at his office in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
Abbas was formally sworn in as the Chairman of the Palestinian National Authority in a ceremony held on 15 January in the West Bank town of Ramallah.
Arab fighters had been informed by an Australian officer that the convoy's mission was to use the enclave to attack Arab quarters and cut off the road to Ramallah.
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