Ramallah

/ rəˈmælə /

noun

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

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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I didn’t add that an al‑Qassam rocket from Ramallah, in the center of the West Bank, could hit Jerusalem in 10 seconds.

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Christina Hilana, a 27-year-old Palestinian from a village near Ramallah in the West Bank called the experience "very moving".

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Two busloads of 88 people were released in Ramallah, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, where families assembled at the Ramallah Cultural Palace — a place normally reserved for performances — to greet relatives, some they hadn’t seen in decades.

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