Israel built aseven illegal settlement outposts inside Area B of the West Bank, for the first time since the Oslo Accords, ...

When Google Maps leads her into settlements, Buttu says she speaks in English in the hopes of passing as a lost foreigner.

With no Christmas tree or decorations adorning the Church of the Nativity, revered as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, holiday ...

works in either tourism or in jobs in Israel. The unemployment rate in Bethlehem is roughly 50%, said Salman. Unemployment across the West Bank is around 30%, according to the Palestinian Economy ...

Bethlehem prepared Tuesday to mark another ... There are about 182,000 in Israel, 50,000 in the West Bank and Jerusalem and 1,300 in Gaza, according to the U.S. State Department.

The city of Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, the traditional birthplace of Jesus, will not have the usual ...