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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 ...

Israeli soldiers demolished, Thursday, the foundations of a Palestinian home in Beit Jala city, west of Bethlehem, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Hasan Breijiyya, the head of the ...

The Israeli military this week began removing a security wall that protected the Jewish settlement of Gilo, on the southeast edge of Jerusalem, against attacks from the nearby Palestinian village of ...

The following statement was issued today by the Spokesman for Secretary-General Kofi Annan: The Secretary-General is greatly dismayed by the further escalation of violence in recent days in the ...

BEIT JALA, West Bank, Jan. 16 -- When Palestinian gunmen killed Avi Boaz this week, it wasn't only his Israeli family that mourned his death. So did his Palestinian family. Boaz, a 71-year-old ...