The Israeli authorities in the occupied West Bank have issued a military order for the illegal confiscation of Palestinian lands in Khirbit Ed-Deer area, west of Nahhalin village, in the Bethlehem District, in order to build 70 units for Jewish settlers, and public buildings, the Palestine News Network (PNN) had reported. read full story / add a comment

A group of Israeli settlers seized a land in al-Khader village south of Bethlehem. read full story / add a comment

Friday March 15, 2013, Palestinian medical sources reported that five Palestinians, including two civil defense workers, suffered bone fractures, and the effects of teargas inhalation, after Israeli soldiers fired gas bombs, and concussion grenades at them in the Al-Khader town, south of the West bank city of Bethlehem. read full story / add a comment

A Palestinian prisoner from Bethlehem was released on Thursday evening after spending thirteen years at an Israeli Prisoner.
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Wednesday March 13, 2013, Israeli soldiers detained a Palestinian child, 14, after claiming that she hurled stones at their jeep west of Bethlehem city. The child was released later on. read full story / add a comment

Wednesday evening, March 6, 2013, dozens of Palestinians held a candle vigil at the Manger Square in the West Bank city of Bethlehem to express solidarity with Palestinian detainees held by Israel, especially those holding extended hunger strikes protesting their illegal imprisonment by Israel. read full story / add a comment

Tuesday evening March 5, 2013; local sources in Beit Fajjar town, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, reported that Israeli soldiers invaded the town, broke into and searched several homes, and kidnapped three Palestinians. read full story / add a comment

The Palestine News Network (PNN) has reported that a number of extremist Israeli settlers cut, on Tuesday morning, nearly 60 Palestinian olive trees that belong to a resident of Nahhalin town, in the Bethlehem District. read full story / add a comment

Local sources reported that Israeli soldiers invaded, on Wednesday at dawn, Aida refugee camp, and the towns of Beit Fajjar and Husan, near Bethlehem, and Wadi Ma’aly area in the city, and kidnapped four Palestinians. read full story / add a comment

Monday February 25, 2013, Palestinian medical sources reported that a Palestinian child was seriously injured by Israeli military fire during clashes that took place near the Aida Refugee Camp, north of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. At least 10 Palestinians have been injured during clashes that took place in Ramallah. read full story / add a comment

Monday evening February 18; In another hit and run incident, a Palestinian youth was injured after being rammed by a settler’s vehicle in Wad Fookin, west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. read full story / add a comment

Morning February 18; Palestinian Medical sources in Bethlehem reported that Israeli soldiers fired gas bombs, rubber-coated metal bullets and concussion grenades at a group of Palestinians who marched at the southern entrance of the Al-Khader town, near Bethlehem. read full story / add a comment

Monday Feb 18; Israeli soldiers handed two Palestinians from Nahhalin village, west of Bethlehem, military warrants ordering them to leave their own lands as the Israeli army intends to take the lands away under the claim of “military considerations”. read full story / add a comment

Palestinian medical sources reported, on Monday evening, that one youth was moderately injured after being rammed by an Israeli military jeep in Za’atara village, south of the West Bank city of Bethlehem. read full story / add a comment