After nearly five hours of public comment at its meeting Tuesday night, Bethlehem City Council took no action on adopting a resolution to call for a ceasefire in the ongoing ground war in Gaza.

Israel has been escalating issuing demolition orders against Palestinian facilities in the West Bank and in 1948 Occupied ...

With no Christmas tree or decorations adorning the Church of the Nativity, revered as the birthplace of Jesus Christ, holiday cheer was absent in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem ...