BETHLEHEM, May 20, 2025 (WAFA) – Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa affirmed on Tuesday that more than 19 months have passed ...

This report examines how Israeli measures, such as the Barrier, settlements and closures have impacted Palestinian livelihoods, development and residential expansion in the Bethlehem governorate.

Christians comprise about 30 percent of the 180,000 residents of the Bethlehem governorate, although in deference to the importance of the city to the Catholic Church, by local tradition both the ...

The Chairman of the Wall & Colonization Resistance Commission, Moayyad Sha’ban, announced that the Israeli occupation state has started building a new colony on lands belonging to the Bethlehem ...

At dawn on Monday dawn, Israeli soldiers abducted six Palestinians, including two children, from their homes in the Bethlehem governorate, south of occupied Jerusalem in the West Bank. Media sources ...

In line with Israel's policy of collective punishment, Israeli occupying forces have closed all entrances and exits of Bethlehem Governorate. Israeli soldiers have closed all entrances of ...

In 1967, the Israelis took control of a pumping station near Kfar Etzion in the Bethlehem governorate, which later became the site of a settlement and today dispenses water to the Palestinians in ...

Following the incident, the Israeli army sealed off all entrances to the Bethlehem governorate in the south of the occupied West Bank, preventing people from entering and exiting the area.

Over decades of Israeli military rule, more and more land around Bethlehem has been annexed, expropriated and colonised, with 19 illegal settlements now in the governorate [AFP] At the main ...

A Hamas operative was responsible for Monday’s terror bombing of a bus in Jerusalem that wounded nearly two dozen people, Israeli police said Thursday. The suspect ...