Greetings and expressions of mutual appreciation were exchanged between the Mayor and the Chairman. The CHAIRMAN explained the task of the Commission and the purpose of its visit to Beit Jala. He ...

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday evening, two sibling children from Beit Jala city, west of Bethlehem, south of occupied East Jerusalem in the West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers invaded ...

The Beit Jala misadventure highlights some of the obstacles to a “rolling cease-fire” between Israelis and Palestinians. Israel withdrew from the Bethlehem village before dawn on Thursday, following a ...

BEIT JALA, West Bank — Avraham Boaz, a Jew, and Jamal Arza, a Palestinian, shared a friendship so old and so strong that it endured through the fighting that has raged between their peoples for more ...

JERUSALEM — Palestinians poured into the streets of Beit Jala on Thursday to celebrate the Israeli army’s withdrawal after a 50-hour reoccupation, but in Gilo, the nearby Jewish community that has ...

When Orly Simon and her husband Yoav look out from Gilo, their neighborhood on the southern edge of Jerusalem, across a valley they can just make out where Jacqueline Zeidan and her husband Fayez used ...

Israeli forces invaded Beit Sahour and Beiot Jala towns located in the eastern and southern side of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday morning. At least 10 army vehicles including a ...

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