BEIT JALA, West Bank - The upturned land where olive trees once grew in front of Amira Abu Saad’s home portray what Abu Saad said she has already known for weeks: the battle for her community ...

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 ...

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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.

BEIT JALA, West Bank — As Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak courted right-wing hawk Ariel Sharon for a new emergency government Monday, the Palestinian uprising brought fierce gun battles for ...

Large numbers of security forces are searching the area near the Palestinian town of Beit Jala for an assailant who stabbed an Israeli man in the face, police say in a statement.

The soldier injured in a terrorist attack on Wednesday night in which an amateur-made explosive was thrown at an IDF position near Beit Jala, south of Jerusalem, was considered to be in moderate ...

Warrant Officer G’haleb Sliman Alnasasra slain, 5 others, including 3 female troops, hurt in incident near Beit Hanoun; IDF: 150 targets hit, 40 operatives killed over weekend ...

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 ...

Beit Jala and Gilo December 2, 2000 The Nov. 16 news story "Israeli Mood Hardens Toward Palestinians" referred to Gilo as a "Jewish neighborhood on Jerusalem's southern fringe." ...