Bethlehem

Islamist group campaigns against Christian West Bank school over hijab restriction on deaf student

The Popular Movement to Overturn CEDAW claimed that the Ephpheta Paul VI Institute prevented a student from attending classes while wearing an Islamic head covering.

Students walk through the school of the "Our Lady of Visitation" Catholic church in the Palestinian town of Zababdeh in the northern West Bank, on April 10, 2025.
Greek Orthodox clergymen walk in a procession in the Manger Square outside the Nativity Church complex in Bethlehem in January.

There is no ethnic cleansing in Israel and the West Bank - this is why - opinion

An Orthodox Jewish man faces the Temple Mount, in Jerusalem's Old City, March 12, 2026

Jews must be able to access, preserve their heritage sites - opinion

Israeli security forces operate during a raid in the West Bank city of Nablus on August 20, 2026.

WATCH: Border Police rescue Israeli citizen after accidental entry into Area A near Ramallah


East Jerusalem residents obtain forged COVID-19 results from West Bank

Obtaining the forged document begins by travelling to Ramallah or Bethlehem, where individuals can visit medical labs that provide paying coronavirus patients with fake permits.

A nose-swab is taken from a driver at a drive-through coronavirus testing station in east Jerusalem, amid coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak April 2, 2020.

Border Police arrest three suspects with Molotov cocktails

A Border Police officer saw the suspects carrying Molotov cocktails. She ordered them to stop and alerted other officers from the base.

Molotov cocktails taken from suspects near a Border Police base in Bethlehem.

Banksy to sell paintings to raise $1 million for a Bethlehem hospital

The trio of paintings is Banksy's critical response to the ongoing refugee crisis. They are titled "Mediterranean Sea View 2017."

A Palestinian boy walks past a drawing by British graffiti artist Banksy

Israel extends tender deadline for Givat Hamatos

The Israeli left-wing NGO Peace Now that opposes the project denounced the extension of the tender and called on Alternate Prime minister and Defense minister Benny Gantz to put a halt to it.

A signpost in the Givat Hamatos section of east Jerusalem

Church of the Nativity reopens as Palestinians ease coronavirus curbs

There have been 423 recorded coronavirus cases and two deaths in the West Bank.

Nativity Church reopens as Palestinians ease coronavirus restrictions, in Bethlehem

Jews, Christians join forces to aid Bethlehem's coronavirus victims

The group delivered ibuprofen, multi-vitamins, gloves, masks and snacks, and also helped the American tourists quarantined at the Angel Hotel in Beit Jala near Bethlehem.

An entrance of the Church of the Nativity is seen locked amid coronavirus precautions, in Bethlehem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank March 11, 2020

Palestinians confirm 6 new coronavirus cases

The new cases raise the toll of Palestinians infected by the virus to 26 – all but one in Bethlehem.

A view shows Banksy's the Walled Off hotel and a section of the Israeli barrier in Bethlehem, October 23, 2018.

Coronavirus: PA shuts Bethlehem mosques, fears of ‘economic catastrophe’

The PA Ministry of Health said on Sunday that 712 suspected samples of the virus tested in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since January 20 were all negative.

Palestinians light Christmas tree in Manger Square outside the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, November 30, 2019

Bethlehem deserted after Palestinians declare coronavirus emergency

In other parts of the West Bank, Palestinian security forces staffed checkpoints and turned some foreigners away.

RACHEL’S TOMB lies on the northern outskirts of Bethlehem, which is under Palestinian control.

Holy sites in the land of Israel are doomed to be profaned by Palestinians

Such widespread hatred for the Jews can only be explained in a spiritual sense

RACHEL’S TOMB lies on the northern outskirts of Bethlehem, which is under Palestinian control.