Ramallah

British  

/ rəˈmælə /

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Ben Hania's film sets out to tell the story - in Arabic and English - of what happened to Hind and her family, from the perspective of the Red Crescent volunteers at the Ramallah call centre in the occupied West Bank.

From BBC

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

At his office in Ramallah, Estephan Salameh, the PA planning minister told me that whatever plan is settled upon, Gaza of the future would look different, but that some things would have to stay the same.

From BBC

Large crowds greeted the freed prisoners and detainees as their buses arrived in Ramallah in the West Bank and in the Gaza Strip.

From The Wall Street Journal

Mayor Khalil Abu Al-Rish stared at the photo one recent morning, a cigarette in one hand and a glum look on his face, then pointed with his other hand out his office window at Ezariya’s bustling main thoroughfare, the primary artery connecting north West Bank cities like Ramallah to Bethlehem and Hebron in the south.

From Los Angeles Times