“The whole area [near the wall] is like a ghetto.” In a Christmas message last week, Batarseh urged tourists to come to Bethlehem “by the hundreds and thousands to morally break down the ...

The only way the pope could visit Bethlehem without confronting the massive wall that slices between the town and Jerusalem would be to travel blindfold. To travel the ancient "Hebron Road" from ...

“The whole area [near the wall] is like a ghetto.” In a Christmas message, Batarseh urged tourists to come to Bethlehem “by the hundreds and thousands to morally break down the racist wall ...

It's possible also to break down the most difficult wall, the hatred ... year we have a sad Christmas in Bethlehem” said ...

but this year it's a message of sadness, grief and anger in front of the international community with what is happening and going on in the Gaza Strip," Bethlehem's mayor, Hana Haniyeh ...

Its shape, together with a depiction of an explosion, form a star, inspired by the Star of Bethlehem that led the Magi to Jesus’s birth. This conveys a message of hope. The artist, Tarek Salsaa ...