A map showing the area of Gush Etzion Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank, in relation to Jerusalem. Google Maps/ Newsweek. As of May 2024, the 143 U.N. member countries voted in favor ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (Reuters) - For a second year running, there is no Christmas cheer in Bethlehem, with tourists shunning the Palestinian city and many residents seeking a way out as the Gaza ...

I srael has controlled entry and exit points to the West Bank since capturing the territory in the 1967 war. Checkpoints and barriers increased after the first Palestinian uprising, or intifada ...

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israel has issued a tender for the construction of nearly 1,000 additional settler homes in the occupied West Bank, an anti-settlement watchdog said Monday. Israelis and ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — I discovered first-hand what it’s like to be surrounded by the eerie silence of Christmas at Christianity’s holiest sites during the Mideast war.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank, Dec 1 (Reuters) - For a second year running, there is no Christmas cheer in Bethlehem, with tourists shunning the Palestinian city and many residents seeking a way out as the ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — The Nativity Store in Manger Square has sold handmade olive wood carvings and religious items to people visiting the traditional birthplace of Jesus since 1927.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank (AP) — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in Gaza. The excitement and cheer that ...

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Bethlehem marked another somber Christmas Eve on Tuesday in the traditional birthplace of Jesus under the shadow of war in Gaza. The excitement and cheer that typically ...

Israel has published plans for a new settlement in the occupied West Bank, the country's finance minister announced Wednesday, a month after the United Nation's top court deemed Israeli ...