Beit Jala, an ancient jumble of Palestinian homes on a hill opposite Bethlehem, used to be a quiet place. When my wife and I lived there in 1993 and 1994, Israeli forces dominated the town from an ...

Greetings and expressions of mutual appreciation were exchanged between the Mayor and the Chairman. The CHAIRMAN explained the task of the Commission and the purpose of its visit to Beit Jala. He ...

Nicola Al-Alam peered out the second-floor window of her old stone house in the heart of Beit Jala, a Palestinian town in the West Bank, surveying a street now littered with broken glass and bullet ...

JERUSALEM — Palestinians poured into the streets of Beit Jala on Thursday to celebrate the Israeli army’s withdrawal after a 50-hour reoccupation, but in Gilo, the nearby Jewish community that has ...

Israeli soldiers invaded, Wednesday, Beit Jala city, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, and demolished a Palestinian home. Media sources said dozens of soldiers ...

Israeli soldiers abducted, on Wednesday evening, two sibling children from Beit Jala city, west of Bethlehem, south of occupied East Jerusalem in the West Bank. Media sources said the soldiers invaded ...

The Beit Jala misadventure highlights some of the obstacles to a “rolling cease-fire” between Israelis and Palestinians. Israel withdrew from the Bethlehem village before dawn on Thursday, following a ...

JERUSALEM — Under U.S. and European pressure, Israeli armor pulled out of the West Bank town of Beit Jala early today, ending a two-day invasion after Palestinian leaders agreed to stop attacks on a ...

Beit Jala lights its Christmas tree in solidarity with Gaza. Religious leaders and Palestinian officials joined together to mark the start of the season with prayer and a call for peace.