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- Palestinians walk under a banner depicting militants from the Lions' Den group who were killed by Israeli forces, from left, Fadi Qufesheh, Abdulrahman Soboh, Mohammad Azizi and Mahmoud Zakari, in al-Yasmeena quarter of the Old City of Nablus, in the West Bank, Thursday, May 4, 2023. The killing of Zuhair al-Ghaleeth last month, the first slaying of a suspected Israeli intelligence collaborator in the West Bank in nearly two decades, has laid bare the weakness of the Palestinian Authority and the strains that a recent surge in violence with Israel is beginning to exert within Palestinian communities. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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Killing of alleged collaborator exposes Palestinian tensions
By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press
Tue,05/09/23-12:16AM , 466 Reads
NABLUS, West Bank (AP) — There was no mourning tent for 23-year-old Palestinian Zuhair al-Ghaleeth. There were no banners with his portrait, no chants celebrating his martyrdom.

Instead, a bulldozer dropped his bullet-riddled body into an unmarked grave, witnesses said.
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- Israeli border police officers check identification cards of Palestinians while they try to cross from the occupied West Bank into Jerusalem, to pray during the holiest night of Ramadan, Laylat al-Qadr, or the "Night of Destiny," when Muslims believe that the Quran was revealed to the Prophet Mohammad, in the Al Aqsa mosque compound, at the Israeli military Qalandiya checkpoint, near Ramallah, Monday, April 17, 2023. Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians are barred from legally crossing into the contested capital, with most men under 55 years old turned away at checkpoints, and compelled to resort to other, perilous means to get to Al-Aqsa. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
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For Palestinians, holiest Ramadan night starts at checkpoint
By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press
Tue,04/18/23-1:02AM , 195 Reads
QALANDIYA CHECKPOINT, West Bank (AP) — For many Palestinians, the journey to one of Islam's most sacred sites on the holiest night of Ramadan begins in a dust-choked, garbage-strewn maelstrom.
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- Christians pilgrims hold candles during the Holy Fire ceremony, a day before Easter, at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and resurrected, in Jerusalem's Old City, Saturday, April 15, 2023. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
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Christian faithful celebrate 'Holy Fire' under restrictions
By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press
Sat,04/15/23-5:48AM , 264 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — Christian worshippers thronged the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem on Saturday to celebrate the ceremony of the “Holy Fire," an ancient ritual that sparked tensions this year with the Israeli police.
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- Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem Pierbattista Pizzaballa leads the Easter Sunday Mass at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where many Christians believe Jesus was crucified, buried and rose from the dead, in the Old City of Jerusalem, Sunday, April 9, 2023. Since the rise of Israel's most right-wing government in history, church leaders say the 2,000-year-old Christian community in Jerusalem has come under increasing attack, with an uptick in harassment of clergy and vandalism of religious properties. Several church leaders, including the head of the Roman Catholic Church in the region, told The Associated Press they fear that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's ultranationalist coalition has empowered extremists. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Illean, File)
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Holy Land Christians say attacks rising in far-right Israel
By ISABEL DEBRE - Associated Press
Thu,04/13/23-1:40AM , 963 Reads
JERUSALEM (AP) — The head of the Roman Catholic Church in the Holy Land has warned in an interview that the rise of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government has made life worse for Christians in the birthplace of Christianity.
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