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The level of access varies based on Israeli security directives. Travel for Bethlehem's Palestinian residents from the West Bank into Jerusalem is regulated by a permit-system. [162] Palestinians require a permit to enter the Jewish holy site of Rachel's Tomb. Israeli citizens are barred from entering Bethlehem and the nearby biblical Solomon's ...
According to the United Nations Conciliation Commission, the Status Quo applies to nine sites in Jerusalem and Bethlehem, [1] which Cust separates into three categories: Disputed between Christian denominations: The Church of the Holy Sepulchre and its dependencies, Jerusalem The Deir es-Sultan, on top of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem
A two-state solution with Israel and Palestine side by side in peace and security. A viable state of Palestine in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the Gaza Strip, on the basis of the 1967 lines. A way must be found to resolve the status of Jerusalem as the future capital of both Israel and Palestine.
The identity of the aforementioned Ziklag, a city which according to the Bible marked the border between the Philistine and Israelite territory, remains uncertain. [17] Philistia included Jaffa (in today's Tel Aviv), but it was lost to the Hebrews during Solomon's time. Nonetheless, the Philistine king of Ashkelon conquered Jaffa again circa ...
The Holy Land [a] is an area roughly located between the Mediterranean Sea and the eastern bank of the Jordan River, traditionally synonymous both with the biblical Land of Israel and with the region of Palestine. Today, the term "Holy Land" usually refers to a territory roughly corresponding to the modern states of Israel and Palestine.
Although Bethlehem is located in modern-day Palestine, Jesus was very much not a Palestinian. ... “Everyone knows that Jesus was a Jew, a son of Israel. If he had been born in our generation, he ...
Recent surveys suggest Hamas’ popularity among Palestinians in both the West Bank and Gaza is running higher despite — or because of — the devastating Oct. 7 cross-border attack on Israel ...
East Jerusalem absorbed thousands of Palestinian refugees, a substantial number of whom were middle-class people [43] from West Jerusalem's Arab neighborhoods when they came under Israeli rule, and many were settled in the previous Jewish areas of the eastern sector, [44] whose inhabitants, likewise refugees, were relocated in the formerly ...