Even getting that food into the compound required a complex negotiation involving Mr. Arafat and the others inside, his aides on the outside -- confined to their Ramallah homes while the city remains under siege -- American officials, who act as the go-between, and the army.
Ramallah is home to a handful of decent hotels, including the sumptuous Movenpick, the West Bank's first five-star accommodation.
At Psagot, a Jewish settlement overlooking Ramallah, where homes have been hit several times by Palestinian gunfire in recent days, soldiers in a sandbagged trench hunkered down in bulletproof vests and helmets, preparing for possible gunbattles after dark.
Travellers interested in visiting multiple sites within the Palestinian territories should use the West Bank's unofficial capital city of Ramallah as a home base.
In Ofra, a flagship settlement near Ramallah that is home to members of the settler movement elite, "most of the construction" is on registered private land, according to the database.
Tensions flared at the court-ordered clearance of Amona, the unauthorized hilltop outpost near Ramallah that is home to a few hundred settlers.
The footage, which was reportedly shot by Palestinian journalist Muath Mishal, shows a group of men and women from the village of Silwad, north-east of Ramallah, entering a home that was occupied by members of Israel's Defense Forces last Thursday, according to the Electronic Intifada.
About 1,000 residents had to leave the Halamish settlement near Ramallah as 45 homes were damaged or destroyed by fire, a police spokeswoman said on Saturday.
But if a settler child needs a new bathroom, we will build it.' But he will continue to build E1 (a massive settlement project planned between Jerusalem and Ramallah) and demolish homes.
