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Birzeit University

university, Israeli-occupied territory

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Birzeit University is an institution of higher learning located in Ramallah, in the West Bank, which is considered an Israeli-occupied territory. The university was founded in 1924 and offers instruction in both Arabic and English. Ramallah itself is situated in the West Bank, north of Jerusalem, and has been under Israeli control since the Six-Day War in 1967, though it is now administered by the Palestinian Authority.12

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