Editing Ramallah (section)

=== British Mandate ===
[[File:Ramallah, Quaker Mission School. Photographed in 1937 LOC matpc.09098.jpg|thumb|[[Ramallah Friends Schools]], 1937]]During [[World War I]], the [[British Army]] captured and [[Occupied Enemy Territory Administration|occupied]] Ramallah in December 1917. The city remained occupied until the designation of the [[Mandate for Palestine|Palestine Mandate]] in 1920, resulting in Ramallah falling under [[Mandate for Palestine|British Mandatory control]] until 1948. In the 1920s, the economy of Ramallah started to improve, resulting in the local Arab [[upper class]] (consisting primarily of landowners and merchants) ordering the construction of several multi-storied villas, many of which still stand today.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.koolpages.com/wael2003/history.htm |title=From a Village to a Town |access-date=February 22, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071223214116/http://www.koolpages.com/wael2003/history.htm |archive-date=December 23, 2007 |df=mdy-all }}</ref> In 1939, the [[Jerusalem Electric Company]] introduced electricity to Ramallah, and a majority of the city's homes became wired shortly thereafter. On the same year, the British Mandatory authorities inaugurated the state-owned [[Palestine Broadcasting Service]] in Ramallah, with [[BBC]] members training local radio staff to deliver daily broadcasts in Arabic, [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], and English. The station was later renamed [[Jerusalem Calling]].{{citation needed|date=May 2025}}

In 1936, an [[1936–39 Arab revolt in Palestine|Arab revolt against the British Mandate]] broke out in Palestine, and Ramallah soon became a center of insurgent activity. The rebels subsequently established a court near Ramallah, in order to provide legal alternatives to the courts of the British Mandate. One British schoolteacher noted that the Ramallah court judge began to produce "news sheets on typewriters and duplicators, aimed at publicizing the alternative rebel regime."<ref>{{cite book|last=Kelly|first=Matthew|date=2017|title=The Crime of Nationalism: Britain, Palestine, and Nation-Building on the Fringe of Empire|pages=130|publisher=[[University of California Press]]|isbn=978-0520291492|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7nYyDwAAQBAJ|access-date=March 21, 2023|archive-date=November 19, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231119232950/https://books.google.com/books?id=7nYyDwAAQBAJ|url-status=live}}</ref>