This article is about the type of building in Palestine. For the Ottoman instrument for financing state expenses, see Muqata'ah.
The Mukataa in Ramallah, 2013
Mukataa (Arabic: مقاطعة, romanized: muqāṭaʿah) is an Arabic word for headquarters or administrative center, particularly in Palestine.[1] Mukataas were mostly built during the British Mandate as Tegart forts and were used both as British government centers and as dwellings for the British administrative staff. Some Mukataas also included police stations and prisons. After the British left, the buildings often functioned similarly under the Jordanians, and then the Israelis.
After the Oslo Accords, the Mukataas were used as governmental offices and headquarters for the Palestinian National Authority. The Mukaatas in Ramallah and Gaza, the two major Palestinian cities, were also used as headquarters to the high Palestinian Authority leadership, including as office for Yasser Arafat, long-time Palestinian Authority president.
The Mukataa with the headquarters of the President of the PLO, 2007
During Operation Defensive Shield in April 2002, the Israeli Defence Forces raided the Mukataas in the West Bank. Some Mukataas, including the Mukataa in Hebron, were entirely demolished.
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Mukataa (Arabic: مقاطعة, romanized: muqāṭaʿah) is an Arabic word for headquarters or administrative center, particularly in Palestine. Mukataas were mostly...
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The mukataa (mukata’a) was a tax district in Ottoman Greece, according to the systems applied widely during the centuries of decline of the Ottoman's...
as Mukataa (Arabic: المقاطعة, "District") are used as offices and administrative centers of the Palestinian National Authority. The Ramallah Mukataa, damaged...
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which the IDF does not enter is the Palestinian Presidential compound, the Mukataa inside Ramallah. As a working rule, the Palestinian security forces are...
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battles against Palestinian militants, including the siege of the Ramallah Mukataa, capture of Tulkarm, and the Battle of Jenin. In the Second Lebanon War...
Cyprus. IDF infantry and armor entered Ramallah on March 29 and entered the Mukataa, Yasser Arafat's presidential compound. The Israelis forced their way through...
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be pre-paid to the Ottoman landlord of the area, otherwise the Chora or Mukataa of Metsovo could lose its status and be combined with neighboring Ottoman...
and European provinces, and the Bureau of the Leases of the Holy Cities (mukataa-i haremeyn kalemi), which supervised the vakifs of the Asian and African...
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Palestinian legislators to the Knesset, and the February 16, 2014 visit to the Mukataa by 300 Israeli students. More recently, OneVoice’s focus is challenging...
gastroenteritis by his Arab doctors who took care of him in the West Bank in the Mukataa before he was airlifted to France, although his condition later improved...
century, various factors influenced Shiite feudatories and traditional mukataa-based familial system, which had become redundant. Thus, Shiite influence...
besieged in the Mukataa compound for close to two years until his departure to a hospital in Paris in October 2004. Much of the Mukataa was destroyed by...
whereabouts. Ari's son Yonatan, a member of the IDF, escorts Gabriel to the Mukataa, Arafat's compound. Although the Israeli and Palestinian traditionally...
literary and media career. This took place at the Palestinian Presidency "Mukataa" and in the presence of a number of Palestinian leadership. "زياد عبد الفتاح :...
In 1780 the infamous and very wealthy Ottoman, Ali Chanialis, became “mukataa”-collector, i.e. the one who received one tenth of the produce as tax,...
further extensive destruction, President Arafat was held hostage in his Mukataa in Ramallah for the second time within a few months. In June 2002, the...
intelligence that these militants were communicating with jihadist groups in Al Mukataa, south of Sheikh Zuwayed. Bedouin leader Ibrahim Al Menei said that the...
Ahmad Abdel Rahman, traveled past Ghawshah's family home, then to the Mukataa in Ramallah for an official ceremony. PPSF colleague Ahmed Majdalani succeeded...
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