Violence explodes between Palestinians, Israelis
Palestine (MNN) At least 90 people have died in
rocket fire between Israelis and Palestinians into and out of the Gaza Strip. Most casualties have been in Gaza, where some apartment buildings have completely collapsed.
Explosions in Gaza at night. (Photo courtesy of Bethlehem Bible College on Facebook.)
The unrest began with the
evictions of Palestinians from their homes in Jerusalem. Jack Sara, President of
Bethlehem Bible College, says, “What happened recently was related to the confiscation of several houses and a major neighborhood in Jerusalem, called Sheikh Jarrah.”
Over the weekend, Israeli police
stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of Islam’s holiest sites. Sara says the violence
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks after a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in the West Bank city of Ramallah oon January 22, 2020.
President Mahmoud Abbas has guaranteed that at least seven seats of a new legislative council will go to Christians in the next elections in the Palestinian territories.
Planned for May 22, the elections are hoped to be the first since the militant Hamas movement won the last vote over Abbas’s Fatah party in 2006.
The measure would give Christians, who make up about 1 percent of the population in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, an outsized representation on the Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC).
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Covid-19 Kills The Christmas Spirit in Bethlehem Published December 23rd, 2020 - 07:51 GMT
Israeli occupation shatter Bethlehem’s Christmas festivities. (Twitter)
Highlights
COVID-19 has been a ‘catastrophe,’ affecting hotels, guides, shops, factories, restaurants, tour buses.
Life was good for the Hosh family at Christmas last year. Fayez, 62, was making a decent living from his home-based woodcarving shop.
He was producing quality handcrafted statues of the holy family that sold in Bethlehem and nearby Jerusalem souvenir shops.
Tourism was flourishing and his three sons George, Rami, and Richard also had employment. George, the oldest, now 36 years old, was doing well in the home decorations business and his family was looking forward to 2020 as the year when he would finally get married and start his own family.