Tag Archives: Bethlehem

by Mazin Qumsiyeh 16 April 2012 | Welcome to Palestine Campaign 2012 We did not have to show our 1500 visitors Israeli racism, arrogance, and human rights violations; the Israeli government showed them and also showed the whole world. Calling itself a ...

30 March 2012 | Ma’an News Agency BETHLEHEM (Ma’an) — The Palestinian Red Crescent treated 339 protesters on Friday at protests around the West Bank to mark Land Day, a spokesman said. Muhammad Ayyad told Ma’an that five people were ...

by Mahmoud Zawahre 16 March 2012 | Al Ma’sara Popular Committee Today the weekly demo of Al-Ma’sara, near Bethlehem, was underway as dozens of Palestinians and Israelis demonstrated in  the heavy rain against the wall in solidarity with Hana Shalabi ...

by Axel 15 March 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank In the outer part of Bethlehem very close to Rachel’s Tomb, Mariam (who wishes not to use her actual name) runs her small Palestinian souvenir shop. But this is ...

by Aaron 14 February 2012 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank There is a place where a ground-level concrete line runs beside a country road through olive orchards, grape vines, blossoming almond trees, and homes—all Palestinian. This is the projected ...

28 January 2012 | WAFA News Agency Israeli forces delivered home demolition notices to two Palestinian homeowners in al-Ma’sara, a village south of Bethlehem, under the pretext that they were built without a permit in an area under full Israel ...

by Shahd Abusalama 25 December 2011 | Palestine from My Eyes When I was a very young girl, I used to climb the window and stretch my arm out, trying to collect some rain in my small hand, then sip ...

by Shahd Abusalama 13 November 2011  | Palestine from My Eyes In a nice restaurant overlooking Gaza’s beach, beneath a full moon with a beautiful halo surrounding it, I sat with my new friends who recently were released from Israeli ...

by Alistair George 28 October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank The Israeli military violently obstructed a peaceful demonstration against the Israeli separation wall in Al-Ma’sara, near Bethlehem, today. Around 25 Palestinians and a similar number of international observers ...

10th October 2011 | International Solidarity Movement, West Bank. On 10th October 2011 at 5am Israeli forces demolished a family home in the village of Al Jab’a, about 15 km southwest of Bethlehem. The owner, Sheikh Nasri, was farming his ...