In August 2012, it was reported that the Ramallah municipality approved the construction of a mausoleum to honor the eight Palestinians who were involved in the attack ( the vote was initially reported by the PA daily newspaper Al-Hayat Al-Jadida and subsequently translated into English by Palestinian Media Watch ).

De facto, the Palestinian government administers the parts of the West Bank that Israel has granted it authority over from Ramallah, while the Gaza Strip is administered from Gaza.

* 26 January: A Hamas member is shot by the Israeli army at a checkpoint in Ramallah and dies of his wounds while an ambulance is denied access for 45 minutes.

Ramallah ( Rāmallāh ) ( literally " Height of God ") is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank located 10 kilometers ( 6 miles ) north of Jerusalem, adjacent to al-Bireh.

" 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.

According to Sani Meo, the publisher of This Week in Palestine, " Capital or no capital, Ramallah has done well and Palestine is proud of its achievements .” Some Palestinians allege that Ramallah's prosperity is part of an Israeli " conspiracy " to make Ramallah the capital of a Palestinian state, instead of Jerusalem.

ASAL technologies, an information technology company in Ramallah, has 120 employees and is looking forward to " exponential growth.

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.

The PFLP is powerful politically in the Ramallah area, the eastern districts and suburbs of Jerusalem and Bethlehem, the primarily Christian Refidyeh district of Nablus, but has far less strength in the rest of the West Bank, and is of little or no threat to the established Hamas and Fatah movements in Gaza.

" We were at a demonstration against the wall, against the Israeli apartheid wall in the West Bank village of Ni ' lin, which is about twenty-six kilometers west of Ramallah.

" This violation is made on purpose ," Abbas said in a written statement sent to reporters in the West Bank capital of Ramallah.

The second war is waged by fanatical Islam, from Iran to Gaza and from Lebanon to Ramallah, to destroy Israel and drive the Jews out of their land.

As of 2003, she is the only Jewish Israeli journalist who has lived full-time among the Palestinians, in Gaza from 1993 and in Ramallah from 1997.

East Jerusalem is the proclaimed capital of the proposed Palestine although Ramallah serves as the administrative capital.

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 () also Qalandiya is a Palestinian village located in the West Bank, between Jerusalem and Ramallah.

Kalandia checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah is known as a frequent flash point between Palestinian protesters and Israeli security forces.

Kalandia is a military check point where Palestinians with permits can leave Ramallah for work, medical care, education or religious reasons.

Ramallah is where Yasser Arafat lived.

In Ramallah three Palestinians, one of them a Hamas member, were killed by Israeli troops in separate incidents.

In 2010, " more than one hundred " Palestinian businesses were reported to have moved to Ramallah from East Jerusalem, because “ Here they pay less taxes and have more customers.

In addition to the churches of the ABCI, there were two churches in Israel affiliated with the American Baptist Association ( 1 each in Jerusalem and Ramallah ) and one Reformed Baptist church near Tel Aviv.

Amin Majaj, physician: born Ramallah, Palestine 21 March 1921 ; married 1947 Betty Dagher ( one son, three daughters ); died Jerusalem 2 January 1999.

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.

Nimri left after seven years in service and relocated on 1949 to Ramallah where he worked in a local radio station and composed many songs one of which was performed during the visit of Abdullah I of Jordan.

Ramallah has been described as the seat of power of the Palestinian Authority and serves as the headquarters for most international NGOs and embassies.

The film consists largely of a series of brief interconnected sketches, but for the most part records a day in the life of a Palestinian living in Nazareth, whose girlfriend lives several checkpoints away in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

* Ramallah and al-Bireh, in the West Bank

Israeli West Bank barrier near Ramallah

Yasser Arafat established his West Bank headquarters, the Mukata ' a, in Ramallah.

The site still serves as the Ramallah headquarters of the Palestinian Authority, as well the official West Bank office of Mahmoud Abbas.

* 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.

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.

The PFLP's armed wing, in the West Bank and Gaza, the Abu Ali Mustapha Brigades, draws much of its support from student organizations in universities like Al-Quds University ( eastern Jerusalem ), Bir Zeit University ( Ramallah area ), An-Najah National University ( Nablus ), and the Arab American University-Jenin.

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.

In 2012, Anna Van Hollen filed her stories from Ramallah in the West Bank ***.

Van Hollen Junior ’ s daughter Anna has been living in Ramallah and writing as a journalist from the West Bank as a Student Fellow of the Pulitzer Center.

More peculiar is the West Bank group Ramallah Underground, found by the two brothers Aswatt, Boikutt and Stormtrap.

He suffered a minor stroke on a visit to Ramallah, West Bank in September 2004.

Rafat () is a Palestinian town, located approximately southwest of the city of Ramallah in the central West Bank in the northern Jerusalem Governorate.

Previous holders of the Guinness World Record for the largest tabbouleh include Lebanon ( October 2009 ), Israel ( specifically, the Arab residents of Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights who made a bowl of tabbouleh weighing 2359 kg in March 2008 ), and Palestinian residents of Ramallah in the West Bank ( June 2006 ).