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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 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…
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 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…
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,…
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 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…
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…
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 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…
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 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…
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…
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 –…
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 by IMEMC’s Ghassan Bannoura
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) 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
On Friday midday, the popular committee of Al Khader village—near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem—held a non-violent demonstration to protest the construction of the illegal Israeli wall, demanding…
Around 250 Palestinians and Internationals, including 70 Americans demonstrated against the construction of the separation wall on the land of Al-Me’sara village south of Bethlehem on Friday morning.The protestors wore…
Israeli troops arrested Farid Al-Atrash, a lawyer from Bethlehem as he was among other Palestinians protesting the presence of Israeli settlers who occupied a piece of land east of the…
Around 200 Palestinians, internationals and Israelis demonstrated at military checkpoint placed at the southern entrance of Bethlehem, to protest the wall Israel is building on the lands of the Palestinian…
At least 700 Palestinians from the southern West Bank district marched on Thursday side by side next to the largest key in the world to mark the 60th anniversary of…
Around eight Israeli soldiers barged into the town of Beit Sahour, located near Bethlehem, in the southern part of the West Bank on Saturday afternoon.The soldiers marched into the town…
The Popular Committee of Al-Khader village, located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, organized a non-violent demonstration in protest of the construction of the illegal Israeli segregation barrier,…
An anti-Wall demonstration of at least two hundred of the residents of the al Ma’sarah village near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem and dozens of International peace activists…
The Israeli army invaded the Al Azza Refugee camp located in the southern west Bank city of Bethlehem and kidnapped one civilian on Thursday at dawn. Local sources reported that…
Around 100 villagers from Al Khader village located near Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank supported by a small number of international and Israeli peace activist…
Palestinian sources reported on Tuesday night that five Palestinian civilians were injured during an army invasion targeting the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. Troops stormed the city, soldiers opened…
At least 200 villagers from Al Khader village located near Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank along with international and Israeli peace activist protest the illegal…
Each year, April 17th marks Palestinian Prisoners' Day, in which the Palestinian population remembers the 11,500 Palestinians currently imprisoned by the Israeli occupying forces. In Bethlehem, the commemoration started a…
A group of radical Israeli settlers from the settlement of Efrat attacked Palestinian farmers from the nearby village of Al Ma'ssarah, located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem,…
The Israeli army prevented a number of Israeli peace activists from joining the Palestinian residents of Al-Khader, near Bethlehem, in their weekly nonviolent protest against the construction of the annexation…
The Israeli High Court of Justice decided to evacuate an illegal settlement outpost which was constructed by the settlers on a privately owned Palestinian land in Al Khader town, west…
In the past 12 hours the Israeli army invaded several parts of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem and a number of neighboring villages, during the attacks the Israeli…
This weeks Indy Global Report comes amidst the people of Bethlehem's, collective sorrow, at the loss of four of their community during an Israeli under cover operation. Israel claims the…
At least 250 Palestinians from the village of Al Khader located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, joined by Israeli and international peace activists staged a protest on…
On Friday morning, 150 Palestinian residents of al Ma'sarah village near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, joined by around thirty International and Israeli peace activists, gathered in the…
Thursday afternoon a massive number of Israeli soldiers had invaded the al Balou’ neighborhood in the West Bank town of al Khader southern of Bethlehem.Local eyewitness reported that the soldiers…
The Israeli human rights group, B’Tselem issued a letter on Thursday addressed to Israel’s Attorney General and the Advocate General of the Israeli Military, demanding that they carry out criminal…
The Israeli army invaded several parts of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem and nearby villages on Tuesday morning and kidnapped three civilians. Local sources said that the Israeli…
The administration of Efrat, an illegal Israeli settlement near Bethlehem, decided to launch a construction project to build a new “neighborhood” which will be added to the settlement by annexing…
A number of Palestinians from the village of Al Khader, located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, staged a protest midday Friday against the wall the Israel government…
Villagers of Al Khader, located south-west of Bethlehem city in the southern West Bank revealed on Tuesday that Israeli settlers have started to build a new settlement post on their…
Around 100 Palestinians from the village of Al Khader located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, joined by Israeli and international peace activists staged a protest on Friday…
At least ten thousand residents of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem took part in the funeral at midday on Thursday of the four Palestinian resistance fighters who were…
On Wednesday evening, undercover Israeli soldiers assassinated four Palestinians in Bethlehem. Palestinian medical sources reported that the four were identified as Mohammad Shehada, Imad el-Kamel, Issa Marzouk Zawahra and Ahmad…
The Trade Union of Palestinian Journalists organized in Bethlehem a sit-in on Wednesday morning to protest at the kidnapping of a Palestinian journalist from Bethlehem on Monday by the Israeli…
The Palestinian Journalists Bloc slammed the Israeli army's abduction of Hasan Abdul-Jawad, from Deheisha refugee camp in Bethlehem, on Monday at dawn. The bloc considered the abduction as a direct…
The Israeli army invaded the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem and the nearby town of Beit Sahour on Monday at dawn, kidnapping at least eight civilians, including a journalist.At…
Four Palestinian youth were injured by Israeli army gunfire on Saturday at dawn in the village of Beit Fajjar, located west of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem.Medical sources…
Two Palestinian children were injured during ongoing Israeli military operations in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. At least 20 army vehicles and one bulldozer invaded Bethlehem city center…
The Israeli army invaded the al A’za refugee camp near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem Tuesday afternoon. Soldiers broke into several homes and surrounded one of them. Clashes…
Around 200 school students gathered at the center of Beit Sahour tow, east of Bethlehem city in the southern part of the West Bank, on Monday to protest the Israeli…
The Israeli military invaded the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem and the nearby town of al-Khader on Tuesday morning. Local sources reported that the army kidnapped at least five…
Around 100 Palestinians mostly young children gathered on Monday evening outside the church of the Nativity located in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, to protest Israeli continued attacks…
Ten Palestinian school boys were injured and three others kidnapped on Monday as the Israeli troops attacked a protest organized in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem, to protest…
The Palestinian National, Islamic political groups and local NGOs marched through the streets of the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem to protest at Israeli attacks on Gaza. The rally…
On Friday around 100,villagers of Al Khader, Israeli and international peace activists held a nonviolent protest against the illegal Wall, now being constructed on lands owned by the villagers of…
At least 15 Israeli military jeeps stormed on Tuesday noon the West Bank city of Bethlehem, IMEMC learned. According to an IMEMC correspondent, the Israeli incursion started Tuesday at midday…
Owners of the Palestinian petrol stations located in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem continued their strike on Monday and refused to refuel cars.The strike started on Thursday, Michael…
On Friday, the Israeli army attacked a nonviolent protest organized by the villagers of Al Khader near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem. At least 70 civilians were hurt…
Four unarmed Palestinian civilians were injured when Israeli troops attack a peaceful protest in Al Ma’ssara village located south of Bethlehem city, in the southern part of the West Bank.Around…
A Palestinian teenager was critically injured on Thursday afternoon when a bomb left behind by the Israeli army exploded near him in the city of Bethlehem in the southern part…
Five Palestinians were kidnapped from the village of Al Khadir, west of Bethlehem city, in a pre-dawn invasion of the area on Wednesday. Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli military units invaded…
Palestinian sources confirmed that the Israeli military has kidnapped Salem 'Obayyt, 22, in pre-dawn invasion on Monday. 'Obayyt is reported to be a Palestinian Security officer, and resident of Wad…
Six Palestinian civilians were injured at midday on Friday when Israeli troops attacked a nonviolent anti-wall demonstration in the village of Al Khader, located near Bethlehem city in the southern…
Around 50 Palestinian security officers attacked a family house located in the Aida refugee camp in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday afternoon. Eyewitnesses told IMEMC that…
Three Palestinian young boys were injured when Israeli troops opened fire at them in the village of Al-Khader south of Bethlehem on Saturday at night.Coordinator of the popular committee against…
Palestinian humanitarian law organizations stated on Saturday that Israeli Authorities have stepped up policy of administrative detention.The sources said that 120 Palestinians have been kidnapped by the Israeli army from…
The Israeli army left the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Monday evening, leaving one civilian dead and seven others injured. One resistance fighter was also kidnapped. Medical sources…
On Friday midday the villagers of Al Khader village located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem protested today against the illegal Israeli wall being built on the villagers…
The assistant of the American Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for foreign policies Mr Nicolas Burns, visited the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday and met with UNRW…
An Israeli army undercover force invaded the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem and kidnapped two Palestinians on Wednesday morning. Local sources reported that the undercover army force invaded the…
About 150 Palestinians and internationals gathered on Tuesday evening in front of the Nativity church located in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem in protest of the Israeli imposed…
Israeli forces kidnapped, Mohammad Abu Alia, the Governor’s consultant of religious affairs, and a senior leader of Fatah in Al Duhiesheh refugee camp in the southern West bank city of…
About 200 Palestinians and their international and Israeli supporters protested the illegal Israeli Wall being built on the lands of Al Khader village south of Bethlehem city in the southern…
One international non-violent protestor was injured during a peaceful protest that took place in a village in the Southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Friday morning. Around 200 Palestinian…
Responding to a statement by Lieutenant Ahmad Al Haddar, head of the Palestinian National Security in Bethlehem district, regarding arresting members of the Hamas-formed Executive Force in Bethlehem over the…
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas attended the midnight Orthodox Christmas Mass at the Church of Nativity in the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem on Sunday.The city of Bethlehem marked the…
The city of Bethlehem marked the beginning of the celebration for the Orthodox Christmas on Sunday. Local Palestinians and international visitors flocked to the city from the early morning. Boy…
On Friday morning 200 Palestinians, internationals and Israelis marched against the illegal wall being built on land stolen illegally by the Israeli army from the villagers of Um Salamunah, located…
About 100 Bethlehem area residents demonstrated on Tuesday at the Nashash Israeli army checkpoint between Bethlehem and Hebron cities in the southern part of the West Bank, closing it down…
The Israeli army invaded the southern West bank city of Bethlehem and nearby villages, searched homes and kidnapped three civilians on Tuesday morning. The three were known as Nasser Shukah,…
A non-violent demonstration took place on Friday midday in Artas village, in the southern part of the Bethlehem district. roughly sixty Palestinian, Israeli and international activists gathered in an area…
Private homes in several villages around the city of Bethlehem in southern West Bank were attacked on Wednesday morning. Israeli soldiers fired randomly in the houses they searched, and caused…
An Israeli army force invaded the city of Bethlehem Tuesday morning. Troops searched and ransacked a local book store, according to local sources. The Israeli soldiers invaded and trashed the…
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…
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…
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. …
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…
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…
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…
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…