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1 day ago · Bethlehem ( / ˈbɛθlɪhɛm /; Arabic: بيت لحم, Bayt Laḥm, pronunciation ⓘ; Hebrew: בֵּית לֶחֶםBēṯ Leḥem) is a city in the Israeli-occupied West Bank of the State of Palestine, located about ten kilometres (six miles) south of Jerusalem. It is the capital of the Bethlehem Governorate, and as of 2017 had a population of ...
5 days ago · The principal Palestinian municipalities of the West Bank are Jenin, Nablus, and Ramallah north of Jerusalem and Bethlehem and Hebron (Al-Khalīl) south of Jerusalem. Jericho (Arīḥā) is the chief municipality of the Jordan River valley.
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4 days ago · The environmental destruction caused by Israel in Gaza is part of a long-term and systematic destruction of the Palestinian environment, which Qumsiyeh believes should be called an ecocide. Grenades and tear gas canisters are exhibited to underscore the effects of conflict on the environment. Bethlehem, occupied West Bank, 12 march 2024.
9 hours ago · Israel seized control of the territory from Jordan in 1967 during a war with three Arab ... Settlers are governed by Israeli civil law while their Palestinian neighbors are subject to Israeli ...
12 hours ago · Gaza Strip, territory along the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of the Sinai Peninsula. It is densely populated and impoverished, in part due to the ongoing political situation of the region. It became a center of tension in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict when Hamas seized control of the area in 2007.
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5 days ago · In 2024, Israel illegally seized 23.7sq km (9.15 sq miles) of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank, amid its ongoing war on Gaza. That’s more than the land it took over the past 20 years ...
19 hours ago · Bethlehem, Palestine (Shutterstock) How the Israeli Extreme Right Has Achieved Victory. The settler movement in the West Bank has been key to the rise of Israel's far right. Originally published in TomDispatch . In 1979, I made the first of what would turn out to be decades of periodic visits to Israel and the West Bank. I traveled there for ...
