Christ at the Checkpoint endorses the Nakba myth in ... the Christian population of the city was 87%, but after Israel gave Bethlehem to Arafat and the Palestinian Liberation Organization in ...

closing checkpoints. This, local inhabitants say, means that even Palestinian Christians in Israel and the other parts of the West Bank cannot visit Bethlehem to pray there for Christmas.

Christmas celebrations in Bethlehem ... pass military checkpoints. The restrictions have also prevented tens of thousands of Palestinians from exiting the territory to work in Israel.

BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Jack Giacaman enjoys ... It turned into a seven-hour drive that included waits at several Israeli checkpoints — many new since Oct. 7 — and a route made more ...

Bannoura asked the audience crowded into the auditorium at Bethlehem ... Israel-Hamas war between Christians in the Holy Land and Christians in the West was a prominent theme at Christ at the ...

Bethlehem resident Taly Nassar crossed an Israeli checkpoint every day to work at a store in Jerusalem. Her husband, a construction worker, did the same. “In Israel we earn double, sometimes ...

Israel turned Bethlehem over to Palestinian civil control ... had to cross through an Israeli-controlled checkpoint to reach town. "We ask the child of Bethlehem to give us the peace we are ...

On Bethlehem's Manger Square ... they are going to face the gates and the checkpoints that Israel is putting around", Salman said. - 'Not Christmas as usual' - The sombre atmosphere created ...

Bethlehem is administered by the Palestinian Authority, although Israeli-administered checkpoints guard its ... an organization that protests Israel’s strictures on Palestinians’ freedom ...

There is a tendency to think of Bethlehem as part of Israel – some picture it near ... we have to go through an Israeli checkpoint. When we’re a few cars from reaching the soldiers, I point ...

Checkpoints hem it in ... even as the ongoing conflict with Israel disfigured the biblical landscape surrounding Bethlehem. Though he could live and work elsewhere, he said he feels a call ...