Israeli Troops Attack Protester Near Bethlehem
Israeli soldiers attacked anti-wall protesters on Friday near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem using tear gas and sound bombs. This Friday, villagers from al Ma’ssara along with international…
250 Olive Trees Planted By Volunteers Near Osh Grab
Following the beginning of construction of a new watchtower at the site of the former military base, this week, residents of Beit Sahour and international volunteers gathered at the surrounding…
The Israeli Military Detain Four Civilians From Bethlehem City
Four Palestinian civilians were detained on Thursday by the Israeli military during invasions targeting the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. Local sources said that troops stormed down town Bethlehem…
Protest Continues at Osh Grab
This morning, Thursday, February 11th, a group of residents from the town of Beit Sahour, near Bethlehem, arrived at the former military base, Osh Grab, to discover that excavation of…
Beit Sahour Residents Protest Work Carried Out at Osh Grab
Members of the town of Beit Sahour, along with members of the international community, protested at the site of former military base Osh Grab, on Wednesday, against work carried out…
Friday Protest in al-Ma’sara Ends Peacefully, Without Clashes
The weekly demonstration against the construction of the annexation wall on Palestinian land, ended with no clashes with the Israeli military, in the West Bank village of al-Ma’sara.After Friday prayers,…
Italian Prime Minister Evasive During Bethlehem Press Conference
Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, visited the Church of the Nativity, in the West Bank City of Bethlehem, today and held a joint press conference with Palestinian Authority President, Mahmoud…
Soldiers prevent farmers from planting olive trees near Bethlehem
The Israeli military prevented, on Monday, Palestinian farmers and their international supporters from planting olive trees near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem.Farmers from Jeb Al-Theeb area , near…
Israel Plans To Reoccupy Evacuated Military Camp That Became Public Park
Israeli sources reported, Sunday, that the head of the Etzion Brigades of the Israeli army informed the Committee for a Jewish Shdemah that they intend to reoccupy the military camp…
Army Kidnaps Two Civilians From Bethlehem
Two Palestinian civilians were kidnapped by Israeli troops during a Tuesday morning invasion targeting the West Bank city of Bethlehem.Witnesses said that soldiers stormed downtown area inBethlehem, then searched the…
Local Organizer Arrested Following Weekly Protest in al-Ma’sara
Today in al-Ma’sara, near Bethlehem, the weekly non-violent demonstration started at the village mosque and marched towards the land where Israel is building their separation wall. This wall is built…
After Night Time Incursion, al-Ma’sara Protest Continues
After last night’s military incursion into the village of al-Ma’sara, central West Bank, the weekly, non-violent protest continued as usual.The protests in al-Ma’sara have occurred every Friday for the last…
Bethlehem celebrates Orthodox Christmas, local Christians protest at the Manger Square
Scores flocked on Wednesday to the Manger Square in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem celebrating Christmas according to the Gregorian calender. As the Greek Orthodox Church leader, Patriarch…
Palestinian Medics, Firefighters, Rescue Settlers From Fire
Palestinian medics and firefighters rushed to an area near Tiqua’ village, in the Bethlehem District, to rescue a group of Jewish settlers after a mechanical error set their bus ablaze,…
Leaders of the Greek Orthodox Church Faces Boycott at Christmas
13 members of the Greek Orthodox church in Palestine will boycott the Patriarch over accusations of leasing land to an Israeli development company.With the Greek Orthodox Christmas approaching on January…
Candle Lit Vigil Held in Manger Square Bethlehem to Commemorate Gaza
Residents of the Bethlehem area, West Bank, gather to commemorate those lost in last years Gaza War and stand in solidarity with those still living under seige.At 4:30 this afternoon…
‘I have witnessed’
I have witnessed with my own eyes how is made the decline of human beings in savage beasts…I am a son of a refugee, living in Aida refugee camp…Aida, a…
Bethlehem Celebrates Christmas, very low tourist turnout
Families, church officials and government figures marked on Thursday the start of the Christmas festivities in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. As is the case every year Boy…
PM Fayyad starts Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem district
The Palestinian Prime Minister, Salam Fayyad, toured the Bethlehem district , southern West Bank, on Sunday, marking the start of Christmas celebrations. In the town of Beit Jala, Fayyad was…
Policemen From Bethlehem Will Be In Charge Of Security During Christmas
Unlike previous years, the Palestinian Authority decided that all policemen and security personnel who would be deployed in Bethlehem during Christmas will be from the Bethlehem district.Usually the Palestinian Authority…
The Shepherds Field Readies For Christmas
The city of Beit Sahour, known as the Shepherds Field where, according to the Bible, the angel appeared to the Shepherded and asked them to follow the star to Bethlehem,…
Palestinian Christian leaders call Israeli occupation ‘a sin against God’
A group of Palestinian Christian leaders released a document on Friday calling on Christians around the world to join them in calling for an end to the Israeli occupation of…
Palestinian threatens lawsuit against ‘Bruno’ for misrepresenting him as a terrorist
Former political prisoner and Christian peace activist from Beit Sahour, Ayman Abu Aita, has threatened to file a lawsuit against filmmaker Sacha Baron Cohen for misrepresenting him as a ‘terrorist’…
Bethlehem Mayor: “Peace In Bethlehem Leads To Peace Everywhere”
Bethlehem Mayor, Victor Batarsa, stated in an interview with the Globe newspaper, based in Joplin Missouri in the United States, that peace starts in Bethlehem, the city of Nativity and…
Villagers near Bethlehem stage a protest against the Israeli wall
Villagers from Al Ma’sara, southern West Bank, along with their international and Israeli supporters staged a protest against the Israeli wall on Friday. Israeli troops spread barb wire across the…
Israel approves 900 new homes in settlement; US ‘dismayed’
Israeli government officials gave the final approval on Tuesday to a plan that will expand the ‘Gilo’ settlement, near Bethlehem, by 900 units. Gilo, like all Israeli settlements constructed on…
Villagers near Bethlehem protest the Israeli wall
The villagers of the Al-Ma’sara near Bethlehem, southern West Bank, along with their international and Israeli supporters protested the Israeli wall on Friday. The protesters raised Palestinian flags and banners…
P.A Returns To Israel Four Settlers Who Mistakenly Entered Bethlehem
Israeli sources reported on Saturday at night that four Israeli settlers mistakenly drove into the West Bank city of Bethlehem, and were transported by the Palestinian police to the Israeli…
Sabeel Organizes Christian-Muslim Conference In Bethlehem To Counter Christian Zionism
The Sabeel ecumenical grassroots liberation theology movement is organizing a conference in Beit Sahour city, near Bethlehem, bringing together Muslim and Christian intellectuals to discuss Christian Zionism, an issue of…
P.A Tourism Minister Resigns
Palestinian sources reported Thursday that Tourism Minister, Basem Khoury, resigned from his post, and that Palestinian Prime Minister, Dr. Salaam Fayyad, accepted his resignation.Khoury submitted his resignation last week to…
Bethlehem Holds ‘International Protest For Peace And Nonviolence”
Hundreds of Palestinians held a nonviolent protest in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, with the participation of international supporters and international Christian groups, and peace activist who came to…
Al-Walajah, a symbol of Israeli ethnic cleansing
While American officials continue to claim that the mission of US Middle East Envoy George Mitchell is by no means over, and that he will still pursue his efforts to…
The Israeli army kidnaps two Hamas activists in Bethlehem
Israeli army troops invaded Al Shawawra village east of Bethlehem on Saturday at dawn and kidnapped two Hamas activists, local sources reported. A number of Israeli soldiers accompanied by military…
A-Ma’sara village stage its weekly protest against the Israeli illegal Wall
A number of internationals, Israeli peace activists and Palestinian villagers marched after the Friday prayers in Al-Ma’sara village near Bethlehem, in a nonviolent protest against the annexation wall being built…
Soldiers in attempt to attack a village council near Bethlehem
A number of Israeli vehicles invaded the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Wednesday morning and attempted to raid the municipality of the nearby Al Walaja village, local sources reported.…
The Israeli army kidnaps a civilian from Bethlehem
The Israeli army troops kidnapped one Palestinian civilian in the West Bank city of Bethlehem Saturday morning, Palestinian sources reported.Eyewitnesses said that a number of Israeli military vehicles drove into…
Non Violent Protest against the wall at Al-Ma’sara
International action groups joined local villagers at Al-Ma’sara on Friday in a non-violent protest against the building of the wall ont he village’s land. Close to a hundred of the…
Weekly peaceful protest at Al Khader village
A group of fifty internationals, peace activists and non-violent protesters marched in protest against the illegal wall on Friday midday at al Khader village located near Bethlehem. IMEMC’s correspondents reported…
Israeli army shoots 2 civilians and kidnaps 7 from Bethlehem
The Israeli army invaded Deheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem on Thursday dawn, shooting two civilians and kidnapping five others. Eye witnesses reported that a large Israeli army force entered the…
Palestinian boy shot at by Israeli army
The Israeli army invaded Deheisheh refugee camp south of Bethlehem early Wednesday, and injured an unarmed Palestinian boy. Eye witnesses reported that a number of Israeli military vehicles invaded the…
Army kidnaps a civilian from Bethlehem
Local sources reported on Saturday that the Israeli army erected a military roadblock in Jinata village, east of the West Bank city of Bethlehem and kidnapped a civilian from the…
Weekly peaceful protest of the wall at Al Khader village
A group of 150 non violent protesters marched in protest against the illegal wall on Friday midday at al Khader village nearby the West Bank city of Bethlehem. IMEMC’s correspondents…
The Israeli army attacks a non-violent protest at Al Ma’sara village
Local sources reported that the Israeli army attacked the weekly non-violent protest at al Ma'sara village south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday midday. A group of…
The Israeli army kidnaps a Palestinian girl from Bethlehem
The Israeli army kidnapped a Palestinian girl from Al Khader village near the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday morning.The Palestinian Prisoners Society reported that the Israeli troops kidnapped…
Israeli settlers prevent a prayer in Beit Sahour, assault worshippers
Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian and International worshippers who were holding a prayer service at Ush Ghrab park in Beit Sahour Wednesday evening. As the mass started, the settlers, who organized…
The Israeli army imposes curfew on villages in Bethlehem city and kidnaps a civilian
The Israeli army invaded Za'tara, Fredes, and Beit Tumar villages in the West Bank city of Bethlehem and imposed curfew. Local sources reported that a huge Israeli military force invaded…
A number of children were injured during a nonviolent protest in Bethlehem.
Local sources reported that a number of Palestinian children were injured during a non violent protest against the illegal wall in Al Ma'sara village near by the West Bank city…
Israeli settlers invade Osh Ghrab Public Park in Beit Sahour
Around 70 Israeli settlers invaded Osh Ghrab park in Beit Sahour Wednesday evening and forced international and local volunteers to stop the painting work that they were doing in the…
Weekly peaceful protest of the wall at Al Khader village
A group of 200 non violent protesters marched in protest against the illegal wall on Friday midday at al Khader village nearby the West Bank city of Bethlehem. IMEMC’s correspondents…
30 Israeli settlers invade the local park of Esh Ghrab in Beit Sahour
30 Israeli settlers invaded Esh Ghrab Park in the town of Beit Sahour nearby Bethlehem on Friday midday.IMEMC's Ghassan Bannoura from the scene reported that 30 Israeli settlers accompanied by…
Palestinian Prisoners Society meets to support prisoners
About fifty members of the Palestinian Prisons Society met nearby the Red Cross headquarters in Bethlehem at 11 am on Thursday. The Society meets once or twice a month to…
The Israeli army confiscates bulldozers and equipment from stone quarries in Bethlehem
The Israeli army invaded Faggar village in the southern part of the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday midday and confiscated equipment from 45 stone quarries in the area.…
The Israeli army invades Al Manya village in Bethlehem and kidnaps a civilian
The Israeli army invaded Al Maniya village in the southeastern part of the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday midday and kidnapped a civilian. 6 Israeli military vehicles invaded…
The Israeli army kidnaps two Palestinians from Husan village nearby Bethlehem.
The Israeli army kidnapped two Palestinians from Husan village, western the West Bank city of Bethlehem, Thursday at dawn. Local sources reported that a number of Israeli military vehicles invaded…
The Israeli army erects a military check point in Bethlehem City
The Israeli army has erected on Wednesday morning a military checkpoint at the entrance of Al Shawawra village north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. Local sources reported that…
British PM visits Palestine and Israel meets top officials
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown ended a visit to Bethlehem where he, Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian PM Salam Fayyad headed a Palestinian-British Business meeting attended by a number of…
Weekly peaceful Protests of the wall continue in Al Khader
Close to a hundred Palestinians from the village of Al Khader located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem were joined by International peace activists for the weekly prayer…
As the army attack on Beit Fajar continues, the Israeli army kidnaps 20 civilians
The Israeli army continued on Tuesday afternoon the military opration targeting the village of Beit Fajar located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. Local sources said that the…
Israeli Army kidnaps two civilians from Bethlehem
The Israeli Army kidnapped two Palestinian civilians from the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Monday at dawn. Official sources stated that a number of Israeli troops invaded Abu…
Israeli settlers leave the park they invaded in Beit Sahour
The Israeli settlers left the local park at Esh Ghrab in Beit Sahour town near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Tuesday morning. According to eyewitnesses the settlers…
The Israeli Army invades Nahaleen village west of Bethlehem city
Official Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli army invaded the village of Nahaleen western the West Bank City of Bethlehem on Monday at dawn. Officials reported that a number of…
Checkpoint on a major road closed for many hours, reopened
After a horrific morning for thousands of Palestinians trying to travel within the West Bank, Israeli forces opened the "Container Checkpoint".Wadi Nar Road has become the major thoroughfare between the…
Al Khader village stages a nonviolent protest at a nearby settlers’ road
Scores of Al Khader villagers, located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, along with their international supporters conducted a nonviolent protest at a nearby Israeli settlers road on…
Israeli settlers and army invade Ush Ghrab camp in Beit Sahour.
The Israeli army and 70 Israeli settlers invaded Ush Ghrab camp in Beit Sahour city on Friday midday. Local sources reported that the Israeli settlers started to write graffiti on…
The Israeli army attacks Al Khader village near Bethlehem
The Israeli army attacked the village of Al Khader near Bethlehem and then ransacked the home of the mayor, on Thursday morning. Witnesses said that several army jeeps invaded the…
Non Violent protest against the wall in Al Ma’sarah village near Bethlehem
Around 50 villagers supported by Israeli and international peace activists protested the Israeli Wall on Wednesday midday at Al Ma’sarah village located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem.…
Israeli forces kidnap two young men from Bethlehem city
Israeli troops invaded the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Saturday at dawn and kidnapped two civilians. According to security sources in Bethlehem, a Israeli troops invaded several parts…
The Israeli army attacks protesters in Um Salamunah
The Israeli army attacked a peaceful protest organized by the villagers of Um Salamunah located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday morning; three protesters were kidnapped…
The Khader village protests the Israeli wall
The village of Al Khader, located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, organized on Friday midday a nonviolent protest against the illegal Israeli wall being built on the…
10 jeeps and two armoured personnel carriers invaded the city of Bethlehem, kidnaps two brothers
At least 8 Israeli army jeeps and two armoured carriers invaded the city of Bethlehem on Monday night, and kidnapped two brothers.Witnesses told IMEMC that soldiers were blocking the streets…
Al Khader near Bethlehem village stage a protest against the Israeli Wall
The village of Al Khader, located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, organized on Friday midday a nonviolent protest against the illegal Israeli wall being built on the…
Five Injured in an Israeli Attack on a Peaceful Demonstration South Bethlehem
The Israeli army attacked a peacefull protest organized by the villagers of Al Ma’ssarah located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on frdiayt morning, five were injured. Local…
The Israeli army invades a village near Bethlehem and kidnaps one civilian man
The Israeli army invaded the village of Obiyyat located near the southern WestBank city of Bethlehem and kidnapped one civilian on Tuesday morning. Witnesses said that Israeli troops and jeeps…
The French President arrives in Bethlehem and meets President Abbas
The French President Nicolas Sarkozy arrived at the Presidential Compound in Bethlehem city located in the southern part of the West Bank on Tuesday midday. Sarkozy was greeted by President…
Al Khader village stage its weekly protest against the Israeli illegal Wall
The village of Al Khader, located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, organized on Friday midday its weekly protest aginest the illegal Israeli wall being built on the…
Um Salamunah near Bethlehem protest the Wall
Scores of Palestinian villagers from Um Salamunah, located near Bethlehem city protested on Friday morning the illegal Israeli wall being built on the village land. The villagers supported by international…
The Israeli army invades Bethlehem and kidnaps two civilians
The Israeli army invaded the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Monday morning and kidnapped two civilians. Local sources said that Israeli troops invaded the city and surrounded a…
Ten Palestinian injured, as army invades Bethlehem
Ten Palestinians were injured when Israeli troops invaded the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Saturday afternoon. . IMEMC correspondent in Bethlehem Ghassan Bannoura reported that at least 14…
Five injured and one kidnapped in the weekly nonviolent protest in Um Salamunah near Bethlehem
Five Palestinians were injured and an American peace activist was kidnapped when the Israeli army attacked a peaceful protest organized in the village of Um Salamunah, located near the southern…
Al Khader village protest the Israeli illegal Wall
At least 150 Palestinians from the village of Al Khader located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem along with Israeli and international supporters protested the Israeli wall on…
The Israeli army attacks a village near Bethlehem and kidnaps a man and his Jewish wife
The Israeli army invaded the village of Hussan located near Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank. During the invasion on Thursday morning the soldiers kidnapped a…
Peace activists protest settlers’ attempts to retake a vacated military camp near Bethlehem
Dozens of peace activists and representatives of several factions and institutions in Bethlehem organized on Friday a protest at the location of an evacuated military camp east of Beit Sahour,…
Villagers near Bethlehem stage protests against the Israeli wall
Two Palestinian children were injured during peaceful protests organized in two villages, near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday. Around 150 villagers from Al Ma'sara village along…
The Israeli army to demolish 12 Palestinian homes in Bethlehem
The Israeli army has issued orders to demolish at least 12 Palestinian homes located in the district of Bethlehem in the southern part of the West Bank on Wednesday. Local…
Israeli army invades Bethlehem to search home.
The Israeli army invaded the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Tuesday morning, local sources reported. Witnesses said that Israeli troops surrounded the house of Mohamed Ahmad, searched it…
The villagers of Al Khader conduct their weekly nonviolent protest
Around 200 villagers from Al Khader village near Bethlehem, in the southern part of the West Bank protest on Friday the Israeli wall and settlements constructed on the village land.…
The Israeli army attacks a nonviolent protest near Bethlehem and kidnaps one civilian
The Israeli army attacked the nonviolent protest organized by the villagers of Al-Me’sara village south of Bethlehem on Friday morning and kidnapped one protester. Supported by international and Israeli peace…
Settlers invade abandoned army base in Beit Sahour and stay there for several hours
A group of 30 settlers invaded an abandoned military base located outside Beit Sahour city center, in the northern part of the West Bank. A group of local NGOs workers…
The Israeli army kidnaps two civilians from villages near Bethlehem
The Israeli army attacked Al Shawurah and Beit Fajjar villages located near the city Bethlehem of in the northern part of the West Bank and kidnapped two civilians on Wednesday…
Settlers briefly invade abandoned army base in Beit Sahour
On Friday morning, a group of NGO workers in Beit Sahour found five settlers on an abandoned military base near Sheppard’s Field, outside the city center. After the settlers noticed…
The US Deputy Secretary of Treasury: the PIC has ‘met its goal’
Robert M. Kimmitt, Deputy Secretary of the US Treasury Department told IMEMC that the Palestinian Investment Conference has met its goal.IMEMC meet Kimmitt during the three days Investment Conference –…
Saudi Company to invest $250 million in a project in Palestine
A Saudi compnany will invest $250 million dollars in a construction project proposed in the Palestine Investment Conference in Bethlehem. According to the PIC CEO Dr. Hassan Abu Libdeh, the…
Photos from the Palestinian Investment Conference – Bethlehem: Day one
Photos by IMEMC’s Ghassan Bannoura
The Palestinian president opens the Palestine Investment Conference
The Palestine president Mahmoud Abbas opened the first round of meetings on Wednesday of the three day Palestine Investment Conference in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. Abbas thanked…
The Palestinian Investment Conference- PIC opens in Bethlehem
The Palestinian Investment Conference (PIC) opened on Wednesday at the Jacir Palace hotel in Bethlehem. The opening press conference was hosted by Kamal Hassunah, the Palestinian Minster of Economy, and…
Potential investor says Palestine is virgin for Investment but only if Israel agees to peace
Dr Mohammed Salameh of Jordan and chairman of the consolidated group for engineering and investment says that Palestine is ready for investment only if Israel will agree to peace, and…
Palestinian Investment Conference Underway
The Palestinian Investment conference launched today with a press conference lasting one hour.Organiser Dr Hassan Abu Libdeh gave statistics and answered journalists' questons. He said that the Palestinan investment conference had…
PIC: International investors begin to arrive in the city of Bethlehem
The international investors participating in the Palestinian Investment Conference, taking place in Bethlehem between the 21st and 23rd May 2008 have started to arrive in the city on Tuesday at…
Two youth kidnapped near Bethlehem
Palestinian sources in Bethlehem city reported on Saturday that Israeli soldiers invaded the town of Tiqua’, east of the city, broke into several homes and clashed with dozens of…
US to participate in investment conference in Bethlehem
The US Embassy in Jerusalem issued a press release stating they US President George W. Bush, announced on Thursday that he is designating an official presidential delegation to the West…