The eternal Palestine's Ramallah in May of 2023

The administrative capital of Palestine. The place where Yasser Arafat is buried. Half of the population are Christian Arabs, the other half are Muslim Arabs. The first 15 minutes in Ramallah, I thought:

The Palestinian Information Center posts about the supposed demolition of a store in Ramallah today Except they forgot to crop the photo so the Hebrew sign ("Cafe and Bakery") would not be showing.

Welcome to Ramallah! Police in Ramallah have arrested a woman accused of shouting “corona, corona” at, and assaulting, a Japanese aid worker, in an incident connected to fears over the novel coronavirus.

A Palestinian man shot and killed two people and injured two others in the West Bank on Thursday, according to the head of Israel’s ambulance service. “Two who were listed from the outset as critical have

Several scuffles broke out in Ramallah on Monday after the Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) entered the city as part of a search for Palestinians allegedly involved in a shooting in the Israeli settlement

BEIRUT, LEBANON (7:45 P.M.) - At least two Palestinians were injured, and dozens reportedly suffered from suffocation, as students clashed with Israeli Defence Forces near Beit El checkpoint, north of

BEIRUT, LEBANON (10:10 A.M.) - The Palestinian Authority's (PA) security forces broke up a rally in support of Gaza, which took place in Ramallah on Wednesday. Riot police used batons, sound grenades and

BEIRUT, LEBANON (12:00 P.M.) - An Israeli soldier was critically wounded last night during a military raid in the West Bank region, the IDF's press reported this morning. The soldier was involved in the

Long before it was known to me as a place where my ancestry was even remotely involved, the idea of a state for Jews (or a Jewish state; not quite the same thing, as I failed at first to see) had been

These are some recent pictures taken in the West Bank and East jerusalem- not of violence, but of normal people going about their lives.

Artwork by Basel Abbas & Ruanne Abou-Rahme

Kronos Quartet - Tashweesh