217:. As the population of Ramallah grew, resulting in traffic problems, Al-Manara was reconstructed several times. In 1999, the municipality appointed an English architect to rebuild the monument in the mode of the original design. Three more families were represented in the statues, al-Ajlouni, Hishmah, and al-Araj. The monument would be topped by a lamp directed skyward whose light might reach as far as ten kilometres. The monument was finished in July 2000. During the
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Ramallah as capital of its own administrative district. In 1935 Ramallah and neighboring al-Bire2h were connected to an electricity grid. And electrical switchboard controlling the street lights was placed on a pole planted on a dirt road separating them which was dubbed "al-Manara" or
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in early 2011 angry protesters who doubted the veracity of documents showing
Palestinian officials made generous concessions to Israel protested in the square and at Al Jazeera offices on the square, breaking some windows of the news organization. In early 2011 protesters calling for an end to the
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in 1967, dismissed the municipality and installed a military governor to oversee the district's affairs. In 1982 Israeli commander Moshe Biton issued a decree to demolish Al-Manara Square and the monument was stored in a municipal treasury. Palestinians protested the
Israeli occupation and did
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set up a tent in al-Manara Square. In 2011 Palestinians protested erected a tent in the square where more than ten
Palestinians were participating in a hunger strike in solidarity with 6,000 Arab and Palestinian prisoners who had been on a hunger strike in Israeli jails.
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Ottoman decree making Ramallah a local administrative center in 1902, the road became increasingly important for the area. By 1905 a new road connecting
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The roads leading to al-Manara were widened to accommodate the Muqata'a. The infrastructure around the square continued to improve until the
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