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 ...

Beit Jala, an ancient jumble of Palestinian homes on a hill opposite Bethlehem, used to be a quiet place. When my wife and I lived there in 1993 and 1994, Israeli forces dominated the town from an ...

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 ...

Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, Beit Jala city, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, and demolished a Palestinian home. Media sources said dozens of soldiers ...

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 ...

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 ...

Since Friday, Israeli troops have fanned out through Ramallah, extending their reoccupation of the West Bank city, which was left to Palestinian control under the 1993 Oslo agreement. Israeli troops ...

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