Bethlehem has held its first Christmas celebrations in two years. The West Bank city, revered by Christians as the birthplace of Jesus, had refrained from publicly celebrating Christmas because of the ...

Bethlehem and Jerusalem have ushered in the Christmas season with public celebrations and glittering lights for the first ...

Christmas cheer returned to the traditional birthplace of Jesus Christ as Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank lit up a tree ...

Bethlehem, revered as the birthplace of Jesus, lit up a giant Christmas tree on Saturday for the first time since 2022. The ...

People gathered in Bethlehem, in the Israeli occupied West Bank, to watch the lighting of the Christmas tree Saturday. It's the first time it's happened since the war in Gaza began two years ago.

The fragile ceasefire in Gaza has meant a return to some normalcy in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Imtiaz Tyab reports from ...

DOHA, Qatar (AP) — An international body tasked with governing the Gaza Strip under the next phase of the U.S.-brokered ...

Bethlehem lights its Christmas tree for the first time since the Gaza war began, with the mayor calling Christmas “the light ...

Palestinians take part in a Christmas tree–lighting event in Manger Square, next to the Church of the Nativity, traditionally regarded as the birthplace of ...

Hundreds of people packed Manger Square in Bethlehem on Saturday for the lighting of a Christmas tree. (AP video by Imad ...