Army invades a village near Bethlehem and kidnaps three civilians
Israeli forces invaded the village of Beit Fajar, south of Bethlehem city, in the southern part of the West Bank on Monday morning and kidnapped three civilians. Sources in the…
Palestinian resistance attacks Israeli military post near Efrat settlement
The Israeli military post next to the illegal Israeli settlement of Efrat, south of Bethlehem in the West Bank, was attacked by Palestinian resistance fighters on Sunday. The Nasser Salah…
Army invades Deheishe refugee camp in Bethlehem, clashes reported
A large Israeli force invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem and the Deheishe refugee camp Saturday night, and eyewitnesses said that a drone plane was deployed above the area. …
Water and Resistance
The view from the Palestinian village of Nahhalin, in the west Bethlehem area, is sobering. This small village—along with the villages of Husan, Battir, Wadi Fuqin, and Al Walaja—are becoming…
One taken prisoner in Nonviolent action in Bethlehem
At least two hundred Palestinians, accompanied by a number of Israeli and International peace activists marched to the confiscated land in Artas village, south of Bethlehem, on Friday after the…
Army stops farmers and their supporters from reaching their land near Bethlehem
300 Palestinian farmers Israeli and international supporters marched on Friday midday to get to confiscated Palestinian land near Artas village south of Bethlehem city in the West Bank. Troops stopped…
Nonviolent resistance manage to stop bulldozers in Artas
The bulldozing of the land in Artas village near Bethlehem has temporary stopped after an Israeli court ruled a preemptive halt of work in the village on Wednesday and Thursday.The…
Army kidnaps three civilians from Obadiya village
A massive Israeli force Obadiya village located to the east of Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank on Thursday morning and kidnapped three civilians. Soldiers searched…
Army kidnaps one civilian from Bethlehem at military checkpoints nearby
Mussa Al Zughari, 25, was kidnapped by the Israeli forces that stationed at military checkpoints to the east of Bethlehem city on Wednesday.
Army invades several areas in Bethlehem city and kidnaps 10 Palestinians
The Israeli army invaded the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem and nearby villages and towns in the early hours of Tuesday morning, searching homes and kidnapping 10 people. The…
Israeli Military fire on Palestinian and International journalists
In an unprovoked attack, the Israeli Military fired on a number of Palestinian and International journalists in the village of Artas , near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem,…
Army invades southern cities in the West Bank and kidnaps four civilians
The Israeli army invaded the southern West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Hebron, searching homes and kidnapping four civilians on Monday at dawn. Witnesses reported that a massive Israeli force…
Soldiers attack information Minister during protest in Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers attacked on Sunday the Palestinian Information Minister, Dr. Mustafa Barghouthi, after his participation in a nonviolent protest against the bulldozing of olive orchards in Artas village, near Bethlehem.The…
The Israeli army attack farmers and peace activists near Bethlehem
A massive Israeli army force attacked and beaten up a group of Palestinian farmers and peace activists in Artas village located to the south east of Bethlehem city in the…
Israeli bulldozers enter Artas village near Bethlehem, group of peace activists attempt to stop them
At least fifty peace activists decided to stay overnight outside of Artas village where Israeli army bulldozers came to prepare for the construction of the wall. Eyewitnesses told IMEMC that…
Two detained, others wounded in anti-wall nonviolent protest in Bethlehem
Around 60 Palestinian, Israeli and International protesters gathered in southern Bethlehem on Friday to commemorate the 59th anniversary of the Palestinian Nakba and to protest against the construction of the…
Israeli army kills a Palestinian child near Bethlehem
Palestinian sources reported on Friday that a Palestinian child died in Beit Jala public hospital, located in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, after being shot by Israeli soldiers…
A number of nonviolent protestors stop Israeli bulldozers in Artas village near Bethlehem
At least 30 Palestinian, International and Israeli peace activists and farmers are preventing the Israeli army from bulldozing land near the village of Artas south of Bethlehem on Wednesday morning.At…
Bethlehem Commemorate 59 anniversary of Al-Nakba
Palestinians in Bethlehem commemorate the 59 anniversary of the expulsion of the Palestinians people in 1948 by Jewish group and the destruction of their villages.Palestinians in Bethlehem commemorate the 59…
Army stops nonviolent demonstration near Bethlehem
More than 30 Israeli soldiers stopped a nonviolent demonstration to reach road settlers only road number 60 located south of Bethlehem city on Tuesday midday. The event was organized by…
Village near Bethlehem protests against the Wall
Approximately 50 protesters gathered in Wadi Niis on Friday to continue the weekly non-violent demonstrations against the construction of the Wall that have been happening in the area over the…
Army invades two villages near Bethlehem and kidnaps two civilians
Israeli forces invaded the villages of Nahalen and Al Shawaorah villages near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday and kidnapped two residents. Tayesser Al Najajrah, 36, was…
Israeli army demolishes a chicken coop in al-Walaja village near Bethlehem
The Israeli army invaded the village of Al Walaja west of Bethlehem and demolished a chicken coop after attacking the villagers on Wednesday.The Israeli army invaded the village of Al…
Army withdraws from Al Doha leaving behind three children injured and a destroyed house
Israeli army forces left, on Tuesday at dawn, Al Doha town located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem leaving behind three injured children and a destroyed house. The…
Troops invade Al Doha town in Bethlehem surround a house of a Palestinian fighter
Israeli soldiers invaded on Monday evening the town of Al Doha, in Bethlehem, and surrounded the houses of Nidal Malash, who is said to be one of the leaders of…
Army invades a town near Bethlehem, and surrounds one house there
An Israeli army force invaded Al Doha town south west of Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank and surrounded a house there on Monday evening. Witnesses…
Israeli soldiers critically wounds a Palestinian boy at a military checkpoint near Bethlehem
Palestinian sources reported the a Palestinian boy sustained critical wounds after a group of Israeli soldiers manning Al Nashshash checkpoint located to the south West Bank city of Bethlehem attacked…
Painted peace activists entangle illegal separation fence in Al Numan near Bethlehem
As part of the “Stop the bleeding of Bethlehem Campaign”, dozens of peaceful protestors marched from both sides of the illegal annexation wall between the southern West Bank villages of…
Palestinian Finance Minister receives German Foreign Minister in Bethlehem
Palestinian Finance Minister, Salam Fayad, met on Saturday with the German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier in the West Bank city of Bethlehem. The meeting is the first between a high-profile…
Nonviolent Anti-Wall Protest by Palestinian Workers in Bethelehm
Some two hundred peaceful demonstrators in Bethlehem protested on Friday against the construction of the annexation wall in the village of Wadi Al-Neiss. The demonstration included mostly Palestinian workers in…
Israeli forces invades Beit Jala town and kidnaps one civilian
An Israeli army force invaded Beit Jala town located south of Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank and kidnapped one civilian on Friday morning. Soldiers searched…
Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers and Israeli police near Hebron
A massive group of illegal Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers while working on their lands that are close to an illegal settlement post near Bethlehem in the southern part of…
The Israeli army invaded Bethlehem city and kidnapped one civilian
Israeli forces invaded the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem and kidnapped one civilian of Thursday morning. Anwar Al Assa, 39, was taken form his home located in Al Kadier…
Israeli army invades Beit Sahour and Beit Jala towns near Bethlehem
Israeli forces invaded Beit Sahour and Beiot Jala towns located in the eastern and southern side of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday morning. At least 10…
Israeli forces invaded Al Doha town near Bethlehem and search homes there
An Israeli army force invaded Al Doha town west of Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank and started to search homes there on Tuesday midday. Israeli…
Non-violent action on Palestinian land occupied by Israeli convict
On Saturday morning Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists accompanied a Palestinian farmer to his land near Al Khader village, in the southern West Bank Bethlehem district. Their intention was…
Peaceful demonstration against the illegal wall and settlements near Bethlehem
On Friday midday Palestinian, Israeli and international peace activists held a non-violent demonstration near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, protesting against illegal Israeli settlement expansion and the Illegal…
Three civilians kidnapped from Bethlehem by inavding Israeli forces
The Israeli army invaded the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem and kidnapped three civilians on Friday morning.A massive Israeli force invaded the city, troops searched and ransacked homes in…
Israeli army invades down town Bethlehem city and abducts three civilians
On Saturday midday a number of Israeli army vehicles along with one unmarked vehicles invaded the down town Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank and abducted…
Israeli army invades down town Bethlehem city and abducts two civilians
A number of Israeli army vehicles along with one unmarked vehicles invaded the down town Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank and abducted two residents and…
Israeli army abducts four civilians from village east of Bethlehem
The Israeli army invaded the village of the Taqua east of Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank and abducted four civilians, among them a municipality official…
Palestinian child seriously injured by Israeli settler gunfire near Bethlehem
Palestinian medical sources at Al Ahli Hospital, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron, reported on Wednesday evening that a Palestinian child from Tiqoua’ village, near Bethlehem, was seriously…
Bethlehem man shot dead in family dispute
On Tuesday at around 5am a man from the West Bank city of Bethlehem was shot dead by a group of gunmen on his way to work. The attack took…
Follow the Women Cycle parade arrives in Bethlehem Monday
A group of nearly 120 women from different parts of the world participating in the 'Follow The Women Cycle', organized by the Beit Sahour-based Siraj Center For Hily Land Studies,…
Village near Bethlehem protest the Wall
On Friday midday, Palestinian, international and Israeli activists destroyed part of the foundation of the illegal Israeli wall being built in Um Salamunah village south of Bethlehem city in the…
Four non violent demonstrators injured south of Bethlehem
A non violent demonstration against the illegal Israeli separation wall took place in the village of Juret Al sham’a near the southern the West Bank city of Bethlehem. International and…
Resistance fighters join journalists in their protest to free kidnapped BBC reporter
Mohamed Shehada, top Palestinian wanted resistance fighter for the Israeli army did not hesitate to come out from his hiding place to join a group of Palestinian journalists who organized…
Israeli army kidnaps a Palestinian at a military checkpoint
Israeli soldiers, stationed at a military checkpoint east of Jerusalem, detained Usaid Atta, 21, from Deheishe refugee camp near Bethlehem on Wednesday afternoon.Atta was on his way back from work…
Army invades village near Bethlehem and abducts two civilian
The Israeli army invaded the village of Nahalen east of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem and the Dohaisha refugee camp in the city and abducted two civilians on…
In symbolism of Good Friday, anti-wall protestors near Bethlehem reenact Jesus’ crucifixion
Six protestors, among them two Israeli activists, were injured today in a non-violent protest against the illegal Israeli wall. The protest was conducted in the village of Al Ma'assara, near…
Army invades Beit Faja village
The Israeli army invaded the village of Beit Fajar south of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem and searched houses there on Wednesday morning. Troops imposed curfew in the…
Um Salamuna village protest against the construction of the Wall
Around two hundred protestors marched in the village of Um Salamuna, south of Bethlehem, to protest the construction of the Illegal Wall on their land and to commemorate the 31st…
Israeli forces beat and abduct seven young men in Bethlehem
On the same day that the United Nations Secretary General was in Bethlehem's Aida Refugee Camp, Israeli forces contravened UN resolutions by continuing the occupation. They also invaded southern Bethlehem's…
Anti-Wall Demonstration on Mother’s Day near Bethlehem
On Mother’s Day & the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination -Wednesday, March 21st- Palestinians from the village of Umm Salamuna and neighboring villages near Bethlehem in the…
Israeli Army dog attacks a Palestinian Woman in Bethlehem
A Palestinian woman was wounded when an Israeli army dog attacked her in the village of Obaidiya, near Bethlehem, on Wednesday afternoon. Troops released the dog after an army bulldozer…
Israeli army troops surround a house in Obadiah village near Bethlehem city
On Tuesday morning an Israeli army force invaded Obadiah village to the east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem and surrounded a house near the Palestinian Authority police station.…
Israeli forces abduct one Palestinian civilian south of Bethlehem
Israeli troops stationed at the Nashash military checkpoint at the southern entrance of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem abducted a Palestinian civilian on Thursday midday. Mohamed Mu’ali, a…
Nonviolent resistance to occupation: family refuses to leave despite being surrounded by settlements
IIbrahim Attallah is sitting in the nearly destroyed village of Khallet Sakariya. His family is alone now, surrounded by barbed wire and the observation posts that double as sniper towers.…
Palestinian women demonstrate in Bethlehem, demand improved conditions in Israeli prisons
Bihlam Samhan is a woman recently released from Israeli prison. She spoke to the mothers, wives, sisters and daughters of political prisoners during a nonviolent demonstration at the Bethlehem branch…
Israeli army abducts two Palestinians from Bethlehem
Israeli forces invaded the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday morning and abducted two Palestinians. Soldiers invaded the downtown city area and searched homes, then abducted Ahmad Al…
Non-violent protest in Wadi Al Niss against illegal wall
On Friday midday international and Israeli peace activists joined residents of Wadi Al Niss village in the southern West Bank for a non-violent demonstration against the illegal wall Israel is…
Army invades Obaiyat village east of Bethlehem
An Israeli army force invaded the village of Obaiyat east of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem and searched some houses on Wednesday morning. Troops attacked and searched some…
Palestinian nurses take the streets demanding their overdue salaries
Palestinian nurses working in the ministry of health took the streets in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Monday midday. The nurses demanded the Palestinian Authority to pay…
Army invades Al Duha village near Bethlehem
An Israeli army force invaded the village of Al Duha west of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Monday midday. Local sources reported that army vehicles and soldiers…
Keep Hope Alive campaign holds second International Planting Day
On Saturday March 3rd the Joint Advocacy Initiative of the East Jerusalem YMCA and YWCA of Palestine held this year’s second International Planting Day. Over 40 international participants, along with…
Non-Violent protest in Um Salamoneh
On Friday, the village of Um Salamoneh, near Bethlehem in the southern part of the West Bank, was the scene of a non-violent protest against the construction of the illegal…
Clashes in Bethlehem, one arrest
On Friday, youths clashed with Israeli troops at Bethlehem’s Rachel’s Tomb, near the illegal wall. Troops fired tear gas and stun grenades at stone-throwing youths.
Non-Violent Protestors Defeat Israeli Bulldozer by Sitting on It
On Thursday the Palestine Solidarity Project released information about yesterday’s events in Um Salamoneh village. The Palestinian village stands to lose 700 dunams of vital farmland to the construction of…
Israeli army bulldozers destroy farm lands near Bethlehem
Several army bulldozers resumed on Wednesday morning, destroying farm lands that is privately owned by Palestinian farmers from the village of Um Salamunah near the southern West Bank city of…
Two civilians injured, two taken prisoner during anti-Wall protest near Bethlehem
Two Palestinian civilians were injured, and two were taken prisoner, during Tuesday clashes between farmers and residents of Um Salmouna village, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem. The clashes…
Israeli Army abducts two civilians from Bethlehem
The Israeli army abducted two Palestinian civilians from different parts of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday morning. Israeli soldiers searched and ransacked houses in Al Artas…
Israeli forces abduct a Palestinian man from Bethlehem
The Israeli army invaded Hindaza neighborhood in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday morning. Local sources in Bethlehem city reported that an Israeli army force surround the…
Undercover Israeli troops abducted a Palestinian man from Beit Jala city
Palestinian sources reported that an undercover Israeli army force kidnapped a young Palestinian man form the city of Beit Jala in the southern West Bank on Wednesday midday. Mohamed Abd…
Israeli checkpoint between Hebron and Bethlehem removed
Palestinian sources reported on Tuesday that the Israeli army has decided to remove one of the many Israeli military checkpoints between the southern West Bank cities of Bethlehem and Hebron.…
Palestinian worker dies after being run over by a car while standing at a checkpoint
Palestinian media sources reported that a Palestinian worker died on Monday midday when he was run over by car. The incident occured while standing at an Israeli military checkpoint near…
Palestinian prisoners at Etzion military detention camp go on hunger strike
Scores of Palestinian prisoners in Etzion Israeli military detention camp south of Bethlehem city, in the southern part of The West Bank, declared a hunger strike on Saturday. The action…
Israeli army abducts one Palestinian man from Beit Jalla city
Israeli forces abducted Ibraheem Al Kurbi, 36, from Beit Jalla city in the southern part of the West Bank on Saturday at dawn. Several Israeli military vehicles stormed downtown Biet…
Bethlehem suffering because of Israel’s land Confiscation Policy
Bethlehem and Jerusalem are the hardest hit this year by settlement expansion and land confiscation. Today in the south central West Bank Israeli forces said they will confiscate 17 dunams…
Six Hundred French Tourists Visit Bethlehem
Led by the Arch-Bishop of Paris Andre the 23rd, around six hundred French tourists visited the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday. Led by the Arch-Bishop of Paris…
Israeli troops abduct one Palestinian civilian from Al Khader village
On Tuesday morning the Israeli army invaded the village of Al Khader, near the West Bank city of Bethlehem. They searched houses and abducted one Palestinian man. Local residents reported…
Undercover Israeli force abducts a Palestinian child from Bethlehem
An Israeli army undercover force abducted a Palestinian child on Monday midday from the southern West bank city of Bethlehem. Eyewitnesses stated that undercover Israeli masked soldiers using a civilian…
Israeli army abducts one Palestinian man from Al Khader village near Bethlehem
Israeli forces invaded the village of Al Khader south of Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank and abducted one Palestinian man on Wednesday morning. Army vehicles…
Bethlehem student protest against Israeli demolitions at Al Aqsa Mosque in East Jerusalem’s Old City
Several student blocs from Bethlehem University and Al Quds University protested the Israeli destruction of Al Aqsa Mosque’s Moroccan Gate on Tuesday afternoon. The students took to the streets of…
Living in exile in their own land
In Nu'man, a village of 35 Palestinian families located on Israeli territory, you can hear both a muezzin calling the faithful for prayer in East Jerusalem, and the bells tolling…
International Planting Day success despite settler and military violence
On Saturday dozens of international volunteers assisted farmers in the southern West Bank village of Al Khader, near Bethlehem, with the planting of some 200 olive trees on their endangered…
Bethlehem: Arsonists attack Hamas-linked buildings
On Sunday night anonymous arsonist set fire to a shop and library in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. A spokesman of Hamas in the Bethlehem area stated that…
Israeli forces abduct one Palestinian man from Obaiyat village near Bethlehem
On Monday morning Israeli forces invaded the village of Obaiyat east of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, and abducted one man . Troops and army jeeps closed the…
Army invades downtown Bethlehem, attacks a home
On Monday at dawn Several Israeli army vehicles stormed downtown Bethlehem city in the southern West Bank and attacked one home. Saliba Al Qanawati’s home is located near the Milk…
Residents, peace activists protest against the Wall in Bethlehem
Dozens of Palestinian residents of Salmouna village, south of Bethlehem, protested along with International Peace activists against the Annexation Wall Israel is constructing on their lands.The protest took off after…