Word: ramallah
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...Palestinian children gave roses and olive branches to departing Israeli soldiers as Palestinians took control of five villages housing about 100,000 people near the West Bank city of Hebron. Hebron and Ramallah are the last West Bank cities still controlled by Israeli military security. Israeli forces will leave Ramallah on Thursday, while Hebron is scheduled to be turned over to the Palestinians in March. TIME's Jamil Hamad reports from the West Bank: "The changing of the guard continues to go smoothly. The children giving the roses and olive branches to the soldiers was an attempt by the Palestinian...
Israel took a step toward broadening Palestinian self-rule by handing over a large West Bank school system -- Ramallah -- to Palestinian control. All West Bank schools are to be in Palestinian hands by Sept. 1, the start of the school year...
...violence leaps to the West Bank, where Palestinian gunmen open fire on Israelis parked on a roadside near Ramallah, killing a 24-year-old kindergarten teacher and a 19-year-old yeshiva student. Protesting Israeli settlers, who oppose the peace settlement with the P.L.O., take their turn building barricades and setting tires aflame, snarling traffic throughout the West Bank. A day later in Hebron, armed settlers, clashing with stone-throwing Palestinians, kill one and wound nine of them...
...came to that rather late. Hanan, cushioned in a wealthy, educated, upper-class family, the youngest of five daughters of a respected physician, had a political awareness that was largely theoretical until the day in June 1967 when Israel took over her hometown of Ramallah. She was a student at the American University in Beirut, then a hotbed of Arab nationalism. She joined in eagerly: "I was going to change the world." But on that June day she heard rumors that her house was being shelled, her parents were perhaps dead, her town occupied. As she stood in a long...
...blindingly plain fact about Hanan, the thing you cannot doubt, is her passion and compassion. She interrupts an endless day's work to receive two unexpected callers: Ramallah women she's never met before who seek her help to free their sons held in Israeli detention. "To me," she says, "this is the horror of it. This is why I do it." To have a nation is the only way to stop the wrenching apart of families, she says. There is no way you can question the authenticity of her commitment, the ferocity of her determination to bring the occupation...