Category: Bethlehem

Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions, abductions, assaults, demolitions, land bulldozing, and movement restrictions across multiple governorates of the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, while illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers…

Israeli forces carried out a series of invasions, abductions, assaults, and movement restrictions across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday evening and at night, including Hebron in…

Israeli forces carried out sweeping invasions across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank overnight and into Tuesday morning, abducting dozens of Palestinians in coordinated attacks, including by illegal Israeli…

Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out widespread invasions and coordinated attacks across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, breaking into homes, abducting Palestinians, obstructing infrastructure work,…

Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple invasions across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, breaking into homes, abducting residents, and enabling illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers to attack Palestinian communities and…

Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions across several areas of the occupied West Bank at dawn on Thursday, breaking into homes, ransacking property, and abducting at least fifteen Palestinians,…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank, early on Wednesday, breaking into homes, abducting many Palestinians, and damaging property in multiple towns, villages,…

On Tuesday night, Israeli soldiers abducted at least six Palestinians during multiple invasions across several parts of the occupied West Bank. In Bethlehem, the soldiers abducted a young man during…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank early Tuesday, breaking into homes, assaulting residents, and abducting dozens of Palestinians in operations spanning Nablus,…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank early Sunday, abducting Palestinians, breaking into homes, and imposing new movement restrictions in several communities. Troops…

Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of violations across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, including invasions of towns and refugee camps, home incursions…

Israeli occupation forces invaded the city of Bethlehem and the Dheisheh refugee camp on Friday evening, deploying along the Jerusalem–Hebron road. Media sources stated that soldiers positioned themselves at the…

Israeli occupation forces carried out several invasions across the occupied West Bank on Friday, breaking into homes, restricting movement, and abducting Palestinians in Hebron, Bethlehem, and Nablus. Illegal paramilitary Israeli…

Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, breaking into homes, abducting residents, assaulting civilians, demolishing property, and imposing intensified restrictions in multiple cities,…

Israeli forces killed a young Palestinian man on Wednesday after an alleged “stabbing attack” at the Tunnels military roadblock, west of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank. The Palestinian…

Israeli forces carried out extensive invasions, home break‑ins, and abductions across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, abducting dozens of Palestinians, wounding several others, amidst massive invasions,…

Israeli forces carried out a series of invasions, abductions, and movement restrictions across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, including Ramallah in the central West Bank, Jenin…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank at dawn on Tuesday, breaking into homes, abducting Palestinians, and tightening military restrictions in several districts,…

On Monday, Israeli occupation soldiers carried out extensive invasions, abductions, demolitions, injuries, and movement restrictions across the occupied West Bank, targeting communities in Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus, Tulkarem in the…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a coordinated series of invasions, home break‑ins, and abductions across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, while illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers escalated attacks in several…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of coordinated attacks on Friday across several areas of the occupied West Bank, targeting cemeteries, mosques, agricultural land, and Palestinian communities in…

Israeli occupation forces carried out invasions in Qalqilia in the northwestern West Bank, Ramallah in the central West Bank, Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, Jenin in the northern West…

Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions, home break-ins, and abductions across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank on Friday, targeting communities in the northern, central, and southern regions,…

Early on Thursday, Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions, home break-ins, and abductions across the occupied West Bank, targeting multiple towns and villages in Tubas in the…

Israeli forces carried out a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank at dawn on Wednesday, breaking into homes, abducting children and adults, installing military roadblocks, and assaulting civilians…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions, home break‑ins, and abductions across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, targeting communities in Jenin, Qalqilia, Nablus, Hebron,…

Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions across the occupied West Bank on Monday, abducting dozens of Palestinians, breaking into homes, and imposing extensive movement restrictions in several districts, including…

Israeli soldiers and armed paramilitary colonizers terrorized Palestinian civilians in the Jerusalem area and throughout the West Bank on Sunday, continuing a pattern of escalated attacks on Palestinian civilians by…

Israeli forces carried out widespread invasions across the occupied West Bank at dawn on Sunday, breaking into homes, abducting Palestinians, and deploying large military units in multiple districts, including Tulkarem,…

Israeli forces carried out a series of invasions, abductions, and movement restrictions across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, targeting communities in the Ramallah area in the central West Bank,…

Israeli occupation forces carried out several invasions across the southern West Bank on Friday, breaking into homes, imposing movement restrictions, firing tear gas and stun grenades at residents, and abducting…

On Thursday, illegal Israeli colonizers assaulted an elderly Palestinian man in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, and erected five caravans near Beit Sahour, east of Bethlehem, in the southern occupied…

Israeli forces demolished, on Thursday, the family home of a slain Palestinian in the city of Hebron and knocked down a commercial facility in the town of Jannata, east of…

On Wednesday, Israeli forces detonated the home of a Palestinian detainee in the town of Qabatiya, south of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank. In the southern West Bank,…

Israeli occupation forces carried out coordinated invasions, land‑clearing operations, and other violations across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, on Monday evening, targeting various Palestinian communities. Salfit,…

Israeli forces carried out widespread invasions, home break‑ins, abductions, and demolitions across the occupied West Bank early Monday, targeting communities in occupied Jerusalem, Ramallah in the central West Bank, Nablus…

Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple invasions, home incursions, abductions, and movement restrictions across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, targeting communities in occupied Jerusalem, Ramallah in the central West…

Updated: Israeli occupation forces carried out extensive invasions across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank on Sunday, breaking into homes, abducting dozens of Palestinians, wounding at least three, and…

Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple invasions, home break‑ins, abductions, and movement restrictions across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, targeting communities in the northern Jordan Valley, Bethlehem, Hebron in…

On Wednesday, Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian homes, a factory, and agricultural facilities in the Jerusalem and Nablus governorates, while a citizen was coerced to demolish his apartment in the…

Israeli forces carried out a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, injuring seven Palestinians in the northeastern West Bank town of Aqqaba near Tubas and conducting…

Two Palestinians were injured on Tuesday when illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers opened fire on residents of Rashaida village, east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, before Israeli soldiers later…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out a series of attacks, land seizures, home takeovers, and agricultural destruction across the occupied West Bank on Monday, targeting communities in occupied Jerusalem, Salfit…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions, home break‑ins, abductions, across the occupied West Bank on Monday, targeting communities in occupied Jerusalem, Ramallah in the central West Bank,…

Israeli forces abducted an entire Palestinian family on Saturday evening after invading the village of Kisan, east of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Local sources reported that soldiers broke…

On Saturday, illegal Israeli colonizers shot a Palestinian child near Bethlehem and attacked citizens and their properties in several areas of the occupied West Bank. Media sources reported that an…

Israeli soldiers abducted six Palestinian citizens on Friday, after storming the West Bank governorates of Hebron, Ramallah, and Jericho. On Friday morning, occupation forces abducted three Palestinian young men after…

Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple invasions, home break‑ins, and abductions across the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, while illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers escalated attacks on Palestinian communities, vehicles, and…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a wide series of invasions across the occupied West Bank at dawn on Wednesday, breaking into homes, abducting residents, and firing live ammunition in several…

Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of violations across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, invading towns, destroying agricultural land, assaulting civilians, and targeting vulnerable…

Injuries, home invasions, and abductions carried out by Israeli occupation forces across Qalqilia, Nablus, Bethlehem, Hebron, Ramallah, and occupied Jerusalem, in the occupied West Bank. Israeli forces injured a young…

On Sunday, Israeli violations of international law continued throughout the West Bank, including military invasions, paramilitary colonizer attacks, forced removal of Palestinians from their homes, and abductions of Palestinian civilians.…

Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers escalated coordinated attacks across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, carrying out invasions, abductions, home break‑ins, road closures, and assaults on Palestinian…

On Thursday, Israeli forces demolished a home and a playground, while colonizers razed land and burned a bulldozer in the Bethlehem and Ramallah governorates of the occupied West Bank. Occupation…

IsraelPalestineNews – If Americans Knew: Instead of our usual news round-up, If Americans Knew today offers excerpts from a new document approved at an international conference in Bethlehem on November…

Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, breaking into homes, abducting residents, assaulting civilians, and bulldozing Palestinian-owned land in several governorates. The violations…

Compilation of news reports – IAK staff (While a “ceasefire” is ostensibly in place, Israel has continued its assault on Gaza without interruption. If Americans Knew considers the war to…

Israeli occupation forces carried out extensive invasions, violations, property seizures, demolitions, and abductions across the occupied West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, on Wednesday. The invasions targeted towns, refugee camps, and…

Christmas celebrations returned to the streets of the Palestinian city of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank, for the first time in two years, as a traditional procession made its…

Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions across the occupied West Bank at dawn on Tuesday, abducting more than thirty Palestinians from Hebron, Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Tulkarem, Qalqilia, Ramallah, and the…

A surge of coordinated violence and military activity swept across the occupied West Bank on Monday, as illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers carried out shootings, assaults, and large‑scale incursions into the…

On Sunday evening, a Palestinian man was wounded by Israeli forces in the town of Ar‑Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem, while Israeli soldiers abducted five Palestinians in Beit Jala, west…

Israeli  occupation forces carried out widespread invasions, home break‑ins, abductions, assaults, and movement restrictions across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank on Friday, targeting communities in Hebron, Qalqilia, Tulkarem,…

Israeli occupation forces launched coordinated invasions across the occupied West Bank on Thursday, breaking into homes, abducting dozens of Palestinians, and assaulting residents in Bethlehem, Jericho, Tubas, Nablus, Jenin, Tulkarem,…

Israeli occupation forces carried out multiple invasions across the occupied West Bank, Wednesday, breaking into homes and abducting dozens of Palestinians in cities, towns, and refugee camps stretching from Hebron…

On Tuesday afternoon, an Israeli colonizer shot and killed a Palestinian child following the funeral of a child killed the previous day, in the town of Tuqu’, southeast of Bethlehem…

On Monday evening, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian child in the town of Tuqu’, southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. Taysir Abu Mofarreh, head of the Tuqu’ municipal…

Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions across the occupied West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem earlier Monday, breaking into homes, abducting civilians, and setting up military roadblocks that disrupted daily…

On Sunday, December 14, 2025, Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions and abductions across multiple areas of the occupied West Bank, targeting towns, villages, and refugee camps…

The Prisoners’ Affairs Authority and the Prisoners’ Club reported the death of Palestinian hostage Sakhr Ahmad Za’oul (26 years old) from the town of Husan, west of Bethlehem, who had…

Israeli forces and paramilitary militias launched a widescale invasion of various parts of the West Bank on Sunday before dawn, abducting 41 Palestinians and damaging Palestinian property, including chopping down…

Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers intensified their campaign of abductions, invasions, and assaults across the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem, Thursday. Reports from WAFA News, Al‑Jazeera, Quds News,…

The Palestinian Civil Affairs Authority informed the Commission of Detainees and Ex-Detainees Affairs and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society of the death of detainee Abdul-Rahman Sofian Mohammad Sabatin, 21, from the…

Israeli occupation forces abducted dozens of Palestinians and detained many more during overnight invasions across several governorates in the occupied West Bank early Wednesday. In Nablus, in northern West Bank,…

A group of illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers abducted Palestinian farmer Yousef Abdul-Rahman Shakarna, in his sixties, on Tuesday afternoon while he was working his land in the Jabal Banias area…

Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions and abductions across the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, seizing dozens of Palestinians and escalating attacks on communities from Hebron to Bethlehem. Local…

Israeli occupation forces on Tuesday afternoon demolished two Palestinian homes in the village of Husan, west of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, displacing families, and assaulting residents. Jamal Sabatin,…

Israeli occupation forces continued their campaign of invasions and abductions across the occupied West Bank on Sunday, targeting communities from Hebron in the south, Qalqilia and Tulkarem in the northwest,…

Bethlehem lit up its Christmas tree at the Church of the Nativity on Saturday, celebrating the season, while neighboring Gaza remains without public festivities of the new year due to…

Israeli occupation forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers carried out a series of assaults across the occupied West Bank on Saturday, leaving multiple Palestinians injured, abducted, and harassed in incidents spanning…

Israeli occupation forces issued orders on Friday to uproot hundreds of olive trees in the town of Tuqu’, southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, in what local officials…

Illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers and occupation forces carried out a series of coordinated assaults on Palestinian communities across the West Bank on Friday, cutting vital water supplies, abducting residents, and…

Israeli occupation forces assaulted a Palestinian worker on Thursday evening in the village of al‑Minya, southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) in…

On Thursday morning, the Israeli armed forces, along with armed paramilitary colonial settler gangs, assaulted Palestinian civilians in various parts of the occupied West Bank. The colonizers wounded five Palestinians,…

Israeli forces carried out pre-dawn invasions throughout the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, as they have done every morning since the second intifada began in September 2000. In addition to…

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian woman with live rounds after midnight Monday/Tuesday at the “Mazmuriyeh” military roadblock, northeast of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank. Media sources reported that…

On Monday at dawn, Israeli occupation forces launched wide‑ranging invasions across multiple districts in the occupied West Bank, abducting and detaining dozens of Palestinians after storming and ransacking homes, and…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank, including  Jerusalem on Sunday, abducting numerous Palestinian civilians and assaulting others, while also deploying toxic tear…

A report by the National Bureau for Defending Land and Resisting Colonies indicates that both Jerusalem and the northern Jordan Valley, located in the occupied West Bank, are experiencing a…

The Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) said Tuesday that Israeli occupation forces abducted at least 50 Palestinians overnight until Tuesday morning in widespread campaigns across the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem.…

Israeli occupation forces demolished a large under‑construction home Tuesday in the town of al‑Khader, south of Bethlehem, in the occupied West Bank. Media sources said troops stormed the Ard ad‑Deir…

Israeli occupation forces carried out widespread invasions at dawn Tuesday across several areas of the occupied West Bank, storming homes, schools, and refugee camps, and abducting dozens of Palestinians. In…

Updated: Israeli occupation forced invaded and violently searched, earlier Monday, dozens of Palestinian homes, interrogated many Palestinians and abducted at many Palestinians, including siblings, a father, and his son, in…

Israeli occupation forces carried out a series of invasions across the occupied West Bank, abducting at least eleven Palestinians, while illegal paramilitary colonizers escalated daily assaults on property and livelihoods.…

On Saturday, Israeli forces shot six Palestinians with live rounds in the governorates of Qalqilia, Jerusalem, Bethlehem, and Hebron, in the occupied West Bank. Media sources reported that Israeli forces…

Israeli occupation forces stormed the town of Za’atara, east of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, earlier Saturday, before assaulting siblings and a woman in their homes. Media sources said…

On Friday, Israeli forces abducted several Palestinians, including a journalist, in the governorates of Tulkarem, Jenin, Tubas, Jordan Valley, and Nablus, in the occupied West Bank. Media sources reported that…

Israeli forces shot two Palestinians near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, on Friday, while soldiers caused several citizens to suffer inhalation injuries in Bethlehem, in the southern West…

At dawn on Friday, illegal Israeli colonizers carried out a surge of assaults against Palestinians and their belongings in multiple parts of the occupied West Bank. A video circulated early…