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The National Martyrs' Cemetery (Arabic: مقبرة الشهداء الوطنيين muqabrat ash-shuhadā’ al-waṭaniyīn) is the major national military cemetery of the Republic of Palestine, located in northern Ramallah at 5901 El-Irsal St, one block south of the Arafat Mausoleum and headquarters of the State Secretariat of Defence. It hosts the graves of much of the nation's military dead from past conflicts. It is owned and operated by the State Secretariat of Defence.

Currently, in addition to the graves of the six deceased former presidents, as well as 147 graves of other deceased civilian notables such as Mohammed Amin al-Husseini, the cemetery hosts a total of 114,740 graves of Palestinian military dead, dating as far back as 1810 during the Ottoman period. However, the vast majority of graves date from after the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and almost one third of the dead interred at the cemetery are casualties of the 1976–1979 Sinai War, also known in Palestine as the Second War of Independence.

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