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Ramallah

British  
/ rəˈmælə /

noun

  1. a town in the West Bank, serving as headquarters of the Palestinian National Authority. Pop: 51 000 (2005 est)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"Everyone knows it's a fix," said one despondent man in Manara Square in Ramallah, who declined to give his name.

From BBC May 15, 2026

Months after his 2017 visit to Israel, Modi travelled to Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian Authority.

From Barron's Feb. 25, 2026

Inside our operations room in Ramallah, time slowed to something unbearable.

From Los Angeles Times Feb. 15, 2026

On Friday, Mladenov visited the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, seat of the Palestinian Authority, to meet Palestinian vice president Hussein al-Sheikh.

From Barron's Jan. 9, 2026

Having seen Imm Janan, their landlord's wife, take the bus toward Ramallah thirty minutes before, they went downstairs to their stony, grassless backyard and unhinged the door to the chicken coop for the first time.

From "Habibi" by Naomi Shihab Nye

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