Ramallah (UK: / rəˈmælə / rə-MAL-ə, [4] US: / rəˈmɑːlə / rə-MAH-lə; [5] Arabic: رام الله, romanized: Rām Allāh ⓘ, lit. 'God's Height' [6][7]) is a Palestinian city in the central West Bank, that serves as the de facto administrative capital of the State of Palestine.

5 days ago · RAMALLAH, West Bank — “The people want Hamas,” the crowd chanted as buses carrying dozens of released Palestinian prisoners arrived in the West Bank city of Ramallah. Israel released a total of 200 Palestinian prisoners and detainees on Saturday in exchange for four young female Israeli soldiers captured in the Oct. 7, 2023, attack, as ...

5 days ago · Ramallah, town in the West Bank, adjacent to the town of Al-Bīrah (east) and north of Jerusalem. Administered as part of the British mandate of Palestine (1920–48), Ramallah was part of the West Bank territory taken by Arab forces in the first of the Arab-Israeli wars (1948–49) and subsequently annexed by Jordan .

4 days ago · The Lebanese Health Ministry said that 22 people had been killed by Israeli fire in southern Lebanon, and the Palestinian Authority’s news agency said that one person had been killed in Gaza as ...

11 hours ago · The Palestinian Red Crescent says that three Palestinians were wounded by Israeli fire in the confrontations outside Ofer prison. It said Israeli forces used gunfire and stun grenades to disperse ...

5 days ago · Israel’s military says it won’t complete its withdrawal from southern Lebanon by Sunday as outlined in its ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah militants.

Palestinians in Lebanon include the Palestinian refugees who fled to Lebanon during the Nakba, their descendants, the Palestinian militias which resided in Lebanon in the 1970s and 1980s, and Palestinian nationals who moved to Lebanon from countries experiencing conflict, such as Syria.

5 days ago · A deal to release Israeli hostage Arbel Yehud has been reached that would allow people to go back to north Gaza, a senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad official said.

THE STORY OF RAMALLAH. In 1945, the town of Ramallah was the administrative capital of the Ramallah sub-district of Palestine. It had a population of 5,080, all of whom were Palestinian.

Ramallah or Ram Allah (Arabic رام الله Rāmallāh) is a small city in the West Bank region of the Palestinian Territories, located 15 km (10 miles) north of Jerusalem. Since the inception of the Palestinian National Authority, Ramallah has acted as the de facto capital city of …