Israeli efforts to seize more Palestinian land have reached a frenzied pitch

Israeli efforts to establish new Jewish settlements and seize Palestinian land have reached a frenzied pitch in the occupied West Bank, where Palestinian residents say they have been encircled and besieged by violent settlers.

By Emily Feng

Violence is driving Palestinian Christians out of their Holy Land

Palestinian Christians are facing violence and displacement across Gaza, Jerusalem and the occupied West Bank.

‘Hopeless’: Palestinian Christians leave West Bank as hardships mount

Palestinian Christians call themselves “living stones” and say they have lived continuously in the Holy Land for the last 2,000 years. Maybe not for much longer, believes Reverend Mitri Raheb. “If the current conditions continue, there will not be a single Palestinian Christian left by 2050,” said Raheb, founder and president of Dar al-Kalima University in Bethlehem, the biblical birthplace of Jesus Christ. Faced with growing uncertainty over economic and security conditions, hundreds of...

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Exodus: West Bank hardships drive out Palestinian Christians

Since the Gaza war began, attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians in the West Bank have become an almost daily occurrence.