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Palestinian industries falter as Israel bombs Gaza, locks down West Bank
11 months ago

Palestinian industries falter as Israel bombs Gaza, locks down West Bank

Al Jazeera  

A serious aspect of Israel’s violence in Gaza and the occupied West Bank is how it’s hurting Palestinian businesses. Bethlehem, occupied West Bank – As the occupied West Bank roils with near-daily Israeli raids, settler attacks and killings of Palestinians, an overlooked impact of the violence is starting to take its toll. The past few months, Muhanad Nairoukh, manager of …

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Israeli forces strike Bethlehem on Christmas day amid raids across West Bank
11 months, 4 weeks ago

Israeli forces strike Bethlehem on Christmas day amid raids across West Bank

Live Mint  

Israel-Hamas war: Stepping up its attack against Palestine, Israeli Defence Forces conducted some deadly Christmas Day raids against Palestinian targets in the occupied West Bank. The development comes amid a surge in violence in the occupied West Bank after Israel launched its war against Hamas targets in Gaza, which has killed more than 20,000 people including innocent civilians. Israeli forces …

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Opinion: Not far from Bethlehem, the plight of pregnant women in Gaza evokes a biblical story
1 year ago

Opinion: Not far from Bethlehem, the plight of pregnant women in Gaza evokes a biblical story

LA Times  

In Bethlehem, Occupied West Bank, the Lutheran Church decided that its Christmas nativity scene this year would be different by placing the symbolic Baby Jesus in a manger of rubble and destruction to reflect the reality of Palestinian children living and being born today. This young woman’s plight, and that of the estimated 50,000 pregnant women in Gaza, evokes the …

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‘If Christ were born today, he would be born under rubble, Israeli bombing’
1 year ago

‘If Christ were born today, he would be born under rubble, Israeli bombing’

Al Jazeera  

All the Palestinian churches have cancelled Christmas festivities this year, and one church in Bethlehem shares its pain through iconography. In Bethlehem, the Lutheran Church decided that its Christmas nativity scene would reflect the reality of children living and being born in Palestine today, placing the symbolic Baby Jesus in a manger of rubble and destruction. “If Christ were to …

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Holy Family Trail: A new path through Egypt's holiest sites
2 years, 1 month ago

Holy Family Trail: A new path through Egypt's holiest sites

BBC  

Holy Family Trail: A new path through Egypt's holiest sites Anthon Jackson The newly restored exterior of the Church of the Virgin Mary Jabal al-Tayr Recently, Egypt's Ministry of Tourism & Antiquity has launched the Holy Family Trail, stringing together some 25 stops along the celebrated route of Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Anthon Jackson The view from the top of …

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Biden claims US will achieve accountability for Abu Akleh killing
2 years, 5 months ago

Biden claims US will achieve accountability for Abu Akleh killing

Al Jazeera  

US President Joe Biden is set to meet Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas on the latest leg of his Middle East tour. Palestinian politician Hanan Ashrawi said Biden’s “statement of intent” on Abu Akleh are part and parcel of favourable US policy towards Israel. “Two states along the 1967 lines with mutually agreed upon swaps remains the best way to achieve …

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Palestine festival fetes films on life under Israeli occupation
3 years, 1 month ago

Palestine festival fetes films on life under Israeli occupation

Al Jazeera  

Ramallah, Occupied West Bank – Curtains came down on the eighth edition of the Palestinian film festival, with the final screening for the winning films focusing on life under Israeli occupation and in exile taking place earlier this week in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. The Palestine Cinema Days film festival that celebrates Palestinian filmmakers and films focused …

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New Israeli plan a ‘dangerous blow to the two-state solution’
3 years, 4 months ago

New Israeli plan a ‘dangerous blow to the two-state solution’

Al Jazeera  

Massive settlement in the heart of Palestine between Ramallah and East Jerusalem would be the final nail in the coffin of a viable Palestinian state, critics say. Hizma, Occupied West Bank – The Israeli government is forging ahead with a plan for a massive new Israeli settlement that could destroy the two-state solution and Palestinian hopes for an independent state. …

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Coronavirus robs biblical Bethlehem of Christmas cheer
4 years ago

Coronavirus robs biblical Bethlehem of Christmas cheer

Associated Press  

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — The coronavirus has cast a pall over Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem, all but shutting down the biblical town revered as Jesus’ birthplace at the height of the normally cheery holiday season. The hotel was the site of the West Bank’s first coronavirus outbreak — when a group of Greek tourists came down with the virus last …

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