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	Ramallah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ramallah was relatively tranquil during the years of Jordanian occupation between 1948 and 1967, with residents enjoying freedom of movement between the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon, and elsewhere.
		The settlement of Psagot on Jabal Al-Taweel hilltop, overlooking Ramallah from the southeast (2004).
		Ramallah is also famous for the Mukata'a which now serves as the governmental headquarters of the Palestinian Authority in Ramallah.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ramallah (3803 words)

	Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Ramallah
		Ramallah (رم اﷲ) is an important Palestinian city in the West Bank, which is currenly under Israeli military occupation.
		Ramallah became the temporary headquarters of the Palestinian Authority, due to the refusal of Israel to allow it to be located in the East Jerusalem.
		Ramallah headquarters are currently not functioning normally, due to the widespread destruction by the Israeli Defence Forces as part of an ongoing offensive.
	www.kids.net.au /encyclopedia-wiki/ra/Ramallah (433 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Region \| Ramallah rampage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Indeed, the violence in Ramallah was the worst the city has faced since the Israeli army invaded four years ago at the height of the Intifada, barricading the late Yasser Arafat inside his presidential compound.
		Israeli forces often enter Ramallah to arrest militants whose names appear on their wanted list (about 400 Palestinians are listed), but usually they take place late at night or before dawn to avoid confrontations, even notifying Palestinian security forces as they enter the city to try and avoid clashes.
		Ramallah, a cosmopolitan city with an educated middle class, is home to many Palestinian-Americans, unlike Gaza City, impoverished, religiously conservative, and isolated from the outside world by Israeli's control of Gaza's borders.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2006/797/re62.htm (1062 words)

	Ramallah Online - Ramallah History
		Ramallah was first settled around A.D. 1550 by Rashed Haddad and his children, and subsequently grew to become one of the outstanding town in Palestine.
		Ramallah history was never documented to a great extent until Azeez Shaheen decided to trace down the Ramallah family trees in 1951.
		Ramallah under the Jordanian rule from 1948-67, was known as "The Bride of Palestine" for its climate.
	www.ramallahonline.com /modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=5 (475 words)

	Ramallah travel guide - Wikitravel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ramallah (Arabic رام الله) is a small city (population, approximately 57,000) in the Palestinian Territories, located within the West Bank region, some 15 km (10 miles) north of Jerusalem.
		Ramallah is in an Area A zone of the West Bank, therefore you must pass through an Israeli checkpoint before entereing the city.
		Bear in mind that Ramallah has been under military occupation since 1967, and thus the city (As well as the rest of the West Bank) should be regarded as a conflict zone.
	wikitravel.org /en/Ramallah (659 words)

	Thorp Records :: Bands :: Ramallah
		RAMALLAH is the product of White Trash Rob (BLOOD FOR BLOOD, SINNERS AND SAINTS) taking a quick snapshot of the current turmoil of the world with the angry camera of his soul.
		RAMALLAH is a horrifying window into the sheer depravity and brutality that has resulted from the mantra of an eye for an eye and the credo of "do unto others as they have done unto you".
		RAMALLAH's main lyrical thrust is to uncover the death, disease, and sickness that is the world's current climate.
	www.thorprecords.com /bands/ramallah.php (328 words)

	The Ramallah Guide - History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ramallah as it now stands, was founded in the sixteenth century when Rashed Haddad a member of a Christian tribe of flsmiths, bought the land from the people of Al-Bireh and settled here with his family.
		Three centuries after the Crusaders had left Ramallah, it was an uninhabited wooded area, a fact which pleased Rashed and Sabri as a large supply of wood was useful for their trade as flsmiths, (in Arabic 'Haddad' means flsmith).
		Ramallah grew, particularly along the main roads and in the direction of Al-Bireh, bringing the two villages yet closer.
	www.koolpages.com /wael2003/history.htm (2160 words)

	EAPPI Report: Quaker Meeting in Ramallah
		Meeting had persuaded the cash-strapped Ramallah Municipality to supply two olive trees and I was part of the hole-filling party that wielded Biblical mattocks drawing soil over the roots.
		The Meeting House is at the centre of one of Ramallah’s main streets, a microcosm of bustle and chaos.
		Ramallah was once predominantly Christian but they now make up less than half the city’s population.
	www.eappi.org /eappi.nsf/index/rep-ah-05012804.html (1245 words)

	Ramallah
		Ramallah is today made up of two cities, Ramallah and Al Birah, which are both of about the same size.
		Ramallah is predominantly Christian, while Al Birah has a Muslim majority.
		Ramallah is the site of the Palestinian parliament, as well as Palestine's leading university, Bir Zeit.
	i-cias.com /e.o/ramallah.htm (224 words)

	AlterNet: Dispatches From Ramallah
		Palestinian doctors were forced to dig a mass grave in the parking lot of the Ramallah hospital today to bury 25 of the dead bodies that have been retrieved over the past 4 days.
		Today, when Widad Hamad Safran (45) from Kadoura refugee camp went to Ramallah hospital to have a cask removed from her previously broken leg, she was shot and killed twenty meters from the hospital by Israeli snipers who have been positioned in al-Ramouni building.
		Ramallah has been declared a "closed military area" and there is an Israeli tank outside his door.
	www.alternet.org /story.html?StoryID=12762 (3471 words)

	Friends United Meeting: World Missions - Ramallah, Palestine
		The Ramallah Friends Schools have served the youth of Palestine and witnessed to Quaker values in the midst of conflict and adversity for more than a century.
		The former Friends Girls School, now a coeducational elementary school, is situated on a tree-shaded, three and a half acre campus on the edge of Ramallah Taht (Down), the old, close-built neighborhood of arched stone houses and shops built by the Christian founders of the town.
		Graceful old classroom buildings of yellowed Jerusalem limestone, capped with red tile roofs, tesitfy to the benevolence of past generations of Friends, and recent additions, their facades still the stark white of newly-quarried stone, witness to a continuing concern for the Palestinian people and their future.
	www.fum.org /worldmissions/ramallah.html (521 words)

	Ramallah News
		RAMALLAH, West Bank - Abdelhakeem Itayem, a Palestinian with American citizenship, was counting on a simple overnight stay when he traveled from the West Bank to Jordan on a business trip.
		RAMALLAH, West Bank -- Last May Adel Samarra's wife of 31 years left the West Bank to go to Jordan to renew her Israeli visa for the 126th time.
		A female Hamas operative was arrested in the Omri slums near Ramallah and a Hamas man was arrested in Zatra, east of Bethlehem.
	www.topix.net /cn/ramallah (649 words)

	Turystyka/Ramallah
		Miasto Ramallah jest położone około 15 kilometrów na północ od Jerozolimy, w Samarii (w Dystrykcie Judei i Samarii, w Izraelu).
		Ramallah znajduje się pod palestyńską administracją, na terytorium Autonomii Palestyńskiej.
		Ramallah słynie także z centrum palestyńskiej administracji rządowej.
	www.izrael.badacz.org /turystyka/samaria_ramallah.html (417 words)

	BBC News \| MIDDLE EAST \| Lynch mob's brutal attack
		The Israeli army said they were army reservists who had taken a wrong turning and blundered into Ramallah where their car was apprehended.
		But this outburst of fury apparently stemmed from rumours circulating through the mob that the captives belonged to the feared and hated undercover units of the Israeli army which dress as Arabs and strike in the heart of Palestinian towns.
		In the immediate aftermath of the killings the crowds on the streets of Ramallah were jubilant, even though they knew what was coming.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/middle_east/969778.stm (566 words)

	CNN.com - Arafat says he is under 'complete siege' - March 30, 2002
		RAMALLAH, West Bank (CNN) -- Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat remained trapped in his office early Saturday where he told CNN by phone that he was under "complete siege."
		An office building in the heart of Ramallah, less than a mile from Arafat's compound, was the scene of an intense gunbattle Saturday morning between Israeli troops and Palestinian fighters, who were holed up inside.
		Before Friday's move into Ramallah, the Israeli army had said it was calling up 20,000 reserve forces in response to recent Palestinian terrorist attacks.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/meast/03/29/mideast (1045 words)

	CNN.com - Despite criticism, Israel forces patrol Ramallah - March 14, 2002
		His comments came as about 20,000 Israeli troops are engaged in military operations in Gaza and at Ramallah in the West Bank, according to the Israeli military.
		In Ramallah, residents Wednesday remained indoors as the fighting continued with no indication of a cease-fire.
		The seventh Israeli was killed and another wounded in a separate incident in the Ramallah area, according to Israeli medical sources, who said the victims came under fire while working on a road.
	archives.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/meast/03/13/mideast/index.html (1173 words)

	Palestine Report - Ramallah’s deceptive calm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		“Ramallah may be calmer than Gaza, but scratch the surface and people here are far from calm inside.” Dr Mahmoud Sehwail is a psychiatrist and the director Ramallah’s Treatment and Rehabilitation Centre for the Victims of Torture (TRC).
		In addition, postulates Sehwail, the increase in cases of domestic violence in Ramallah and throughout occupied Palestine is often connected to the experience of organized psychological violence in Israeli jails.
		In Ramallah itself, while many live a life less exposed to the violence of the occupation as experienced by Mohammad and his friends in Jelazone, none can avoid the effects.
	www.palestinereport.org /article.php?article=559 (1632 words)

	ei: Photostory: Ramadan in Ramallah (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		To Palestinian children, the scene in downtown Ramallah is as exciting as any Christmas season is in downtown New York to American children.
		Downtown Ramallah (Al-Manara) is the heart of commerce in the city.
		Ramallah has "Stars & Bucks", the name of a coffeeshop in one of the buildings downtown.
	electronicintifada.net /v2/article5859.shtml (440 words)

	Eyewitness report from Ramallah
		Women carrying their children were trying desperately to flee from Ramallah, carrying infants and toddlers, and their young children were running along in the rain through the fields, slipping and falling on the rocks, trying to reach safety.
		Israeli jeeps were speeding across the terrain pulling up from every direction and shooting at the women and children, and also at me, as we ran in opposite directions.
		When I reached Ramallah, people were panicking and trying to buy bread, rice and milk from corner stores, but most supplies were already gone.
	www.serendipity.li /hr/ramallah1.htm (1850 words)

	Damage to Palestinian Libraries and Archives during the Spring of 2002
		The offices were occupied by Israeli troops during the recent attack on Ramallah, and the condition of the offices after the departure of the occupying troops tells a good deal about the Israeli military and the political strategy of the current Israeli government.
		The office in Ramallah was the primary administrative office for UPMRC, and contained extensive records dating back several decades on the health condition of the Palestinian people.
		Ramallah's Municipality has also been looted and destroyed; Israeli occupation soldiers destroyed the Municipality's lands claim and registration files, thus exposing the entire society to unthinkable and possibly dangerous problems.
	www.pitt.edu /~ttwiss/irtf/palestinlibsdmg.html (4891 words)

	CNN.com - Arafat leaves compound to tour Ramallah - May 2, 2002
		RAMALLAH, West Bank (CNN) -- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat left his compound Thursday to tour the damage in Ramallah Thursday, a day after Israel lifted a monthlong siege around his compound in the West Bank city.
		The Israeli blockade of the compound was part of an aggressive Israeli military operation into the West Bank that followed a series of deadly Palestinian terror attacks on Israeli civilians.
		Arafat was to address Ramallah residents during a rally in support of his decision to hand over the six prisoners.
	edition.cnn.com /2002/WORLD/meast/05/02/arafat.ramallah (548 words)

	Ramallah under fourth consecutive day of military siege (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Ramallah under fourth consecutive day of military siege Oct 12, 2003, 18:38 Ramallah - Zionist occupation's military siege of the West Bank city of Ramallah was ongoing for the fourth day running paralyzing all walks of life in the usually bustling city.
		Residents said that occupation forces were banning patients, schoolchildren, university students and civil servants from heading to hospitals, schools, universities and jobs.
		Eyewitnesses said that the Zionist soldiers arrested 12 citizens since yesterday in various villages including a 60 years old man in a bid to force his son to given himself in.
	www.usenet.com /newsgroups/soc.culture.arabic/msg06270.html (216 words)

	CNN.com - Inside Ramallah - Jun. 18, 2003
		There are Israeli military checkpoints around Ramallah -- as is the case indeed throughout the West Bank.
		Beyond the checkpoints, inside Ramallah, is a bustling and diverse Palestinian community -- the traditional mixing with the modern -- both Muslims and Christians.
		Sonia Jeetan is a lawyer in Ramallah who says she has become physically and emotionally drained by the Israeli military occupation, though she insists it's also -- in some inexplicable way -- making the Palestinians stronger.
	cnn.com /2003/US/06/18/wbr.inside.ramallah/index.html (542 words)

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