Rather, the chains were used by the person during life to limit mobility as a part of a religious ascetic lifestyle. Initially, the Israel Antiquities Authority, which oversaw the dig, reported that this individual was male.

Muslims were seen praying near Tarawih at Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem after it was announced that Ramadan will start on Saturday in several countries in the Middle East.

Released Palestinian prisoners were met with cheers in the occupied West Bank, marking the final exchange of the first phase of a fragile truce between Israel and Hamas. Buses carrying Palestinian prisoners from Israeli prisons also arrived in Gaza’s Khan Younis days after Israel had originally refused to release them.

No Other Land’s” Israeli-Palestinian directing team took home the Academy Award for the documentary about Israeli occupation in the West Bank.

It is the final release of hostages and prisoners in the first phase of the Gaza ceasefire, which began last month.

The Bethlehem restaurant Darto’s will close next month after 40 years of business, but a new restaurant may fill that hole a few months later. Darto’s, located at 46 W. North St., will close March 15,

Bethlehem’s first Muslim congregation is preparing for Ramadan, a holy month of praying and fasting which starts on Friday evening this year.

In the Salfit warehouse, drivers loaded “family size” packages of soda into trucks bound not only for the West Bank but also for Tel Aviv, Haifa and other cities in Israel. St

A man who pleaded guilty to a shooting at Musikfest will spend up to 9 years in state prison, the Lehigh County District Attorney’s Office said. Joshua Nathaniel Colon, 24, was involved in

By car and on foot, through muddy olive groves and snipers’ sight lines, tens of thousands of Palestinians in recent weeks have fled Israeli military operations across the northern West Bank — the largest displacement in the occupied territory since the 1967 Mideast war.