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{{Short description|News Agency In Palestine}}
'''Ramattan''' is a [[Palestinian territories|Palestinian]] news agency based in the [[Gaza Strip]] and the [[West Bank]]. It is among the largest Palestinian news organizations with over 200 employees and has been established for over ten years.<ref name=JPI>{{cite web |url=http://fr.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1227702378330 |title=Ramattan news agency shuts down in response to raids |author= Khaled Abu Toameh |date= November 30, 2008 |publisher=[[The Jerusalem Post]] Internet Edition |accessdate=2009-01-05}}</ref><ref name=egypttoday>{{cite web |url=http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=6606 |title=Courtesy of Ramattan |author=Viviana Mazza |date=April 2006 |publisher=egypttoday.com | quote=The groundbreaking work of Ramattan News Agency has shown the plight of Palestinians from a unique perspective: the Palestinians’ own |accessdate=2009-01-05}}</ref> In addition to its news syndication, local broadcast activity, and its [[Arabic]]-language website,<ref>[http://www.ramattan.com Ramattan Arabic-language website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20010404055738/http://www.ramattan.com/ |date=2001-04-04 }}</ref> the agency also maintains an English-language website.<ref>[http://english.ramattan.net/ Ramattan English-language website] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081231044225/http://english.ramattan.net/ |date=2008-12-31 }}</ref>

The organization's name comes from "Rama", which is [[Canaanite languages|Canaanite]] for "dear" and in turn "Ramattan", which is the [[Dual (grammatical number)|dual]] form of Rama, referring to its dual home in both the West Bank and the Gaza Strip.<ref>[http://english.ramattan.net/newsdetails.aspx?news_id=39721 What is the meaning of Ramattan?]{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>

Since late 2008 and 2009, Ramattan had been regularly active in providing live broadcast feeds of aspects of the conflict with [[Israel]], sent from the Gaza Strip to worldwide cable-news markets via organizations such as [[CNN]], [[MSNBC]], and others.<ref name=JPI/><ref name=CNNTranscripts>{{cite news |url=http://www.cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0612/22/i_c.01.html |title= Transcripts |work= CNN|accessdate=2009-01-05}}</ref><ref name=MSNBC>{{cite web |url=http://www.nbcnews.com/id/13443578 |title=PALESTINIANS ISRAEL MIDEAST - Photos, Pictures, Images - NBC News |format= |accessdate=2009-01-05}}{{dead link|date=August 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>

In November 2009, Ramattan offices in Gaza and the West Bank were shut down due to what its board described as repeated violations by security agencies of the [[Palestinian Authority]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.imemc.org/index.php?obj_id=53&story_id=57097|title = – IMEMC News – International Middle East Media Center}}</ref>

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[[Category:News agencies based in Palestine]]

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